The Lodge is located at the water’s edge of a large manmade weir, created more than 100 years ago by pioneering gold prospectors, who established a town after discovering coal at the base of Mount Mulligan. After a horrific deep mine gas explosion over 70 years ago decimated the town’s population, the town was quickly abandoned and left to ruin. The design of Mount Mulligan Lodge took inspiration from wandering the ruins of the old coal mining township at the base of Mount Mulligan and imagining the humble and honest outback structures that would have been originally built over 100 years ago.