 There was a large dairy industry in the district.Pine Mountain a few kilometers out of Walwa, located in the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park is the largest monolith in the southern hemisphere at 1.5 times the size of Uluru (Ayres Rock).The town had an Australian rules football team competing in the Upper Murray Football League known as the Border-Walwa Magpies which folded before the 2020 season due to lack of players.