The Town Today
Korumburra is known as the "Heritage Centre of South Gippsland". It is the home of Coal Creek Community Park and Museum. This village depicts life in the area over the period from the 1870s to 1920s, as the town rapidly expanded following the discovery of a coal seam. The outdoor museum covers 30 acres (120,000 m2) of bushland, including 60 exhibits. These include the Giant Earthworm, National Bank, Anzac exhibit, Mining exhibits, Dairy exhibit at the Boston Carriageworks and Railway Museum. The Park is free entry and open Thursdays to Mondays during termtime and seven days a week during school holidays. A tramway runs on weekends around the lower end of the park encompassing an old-time farm and bush oval. Many local organisations use the Park and environs and special events are held during the year.(www.coalcreekvillage.com.au)
Korumburra is also the base of the popular tourist railway South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major centres of Leongatha and the market town of Nyora (formerly the junction to the Wonthaggi line). Heritage trains are operated each Sunday and on public holidays. The South Gippsland Tourist Railway have operated since 1994 when the line was closed in the 90's. The last V/Line passenger train ran to Korumburra on the Leongatha line on Saturday the 24th of July 1993. The line beyond Leongatha is being used as a rail trail for public use and also the former Wonthaggi line. Dandenong - Cranbourne is being used by the Melbourne Suburban train company, while the section beyond Cranbourne - Nyora is in an unusable state for trains to operate and is yet to have its fate decided yet.
Other town attractions include the Olympic pool (open November–March), two-court basketball stadium, art gallery, the South Gippsland tourist railway. The towns main industries include dairy and beef. The region is home to the world's largest earthworms. The town is also home to Burra foods which is a dairy company.
The town in conjunction with neighbouring township Bena has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Alberton Football League.
The town has a soccer team competing in the South Gippsland Soccer League under the name Korumburra City.
Golfers play at the course of the Korumburra Golf Club on Warragul Road.
The town is now being developed with large areas of former farm land being developed for new residential estates, which within the next ten years will expand the size and population of the township by 75 to 100 percent.
In DC Comics, Korumburra, spelled Kurrumburra, is the home town of The Flash's notorious nemesis, Captain Boomerang.
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