The popular function centre plus motel and other facilities including swimming pool and mini golf have been shut since mid-February.

But the resort’s website is still live and capable of taking bookings.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission records show the company operating the resort, Elsglen Pty Ltd, had been placed in liquidation in June 2016, but it had still been hosting functions until late January.

Two years earlier the resort was listed for sale by its owner of almost two decades, Ray Appleton, with the hope it could sell for $2.5 million.

A sign on the door of the resort states: “It is with regret that due to situations beyond our control under further notice the office of Lake Hume Resort is closed. Staff at Lake Hume Resort understand the inconvenience this may cause and we are naturally upset with this news. We extend our sincere apologies”.

A casualty is a sporting event held at the resort every Queen’s Birthday long weekend for 23 years which attracts more than 100 participants from across Australia some years.

Organiser Leanne Wegener said this week she made more than 10 calls to the resort to begin preparations for this year’s event without success before heading to Lake Hume to discover “a ghost town”.

“I was so annoyed because for 23 years we’ve helped prop them up through good times and bad,” she said.

Mrs Wegener said many event participants made bookings for the following year upon departure and wouldn’t be aware of what had happened.

The Short Statured People of Australia sporting weekend, which also stages activities and functions in Albury, has been cancelled.

“It’s impossible to get other accommodation for the June long weekend and because we are catering for a group with special needs we can’t just go anywhere else,” she said.

“It’s annoying to have a live website functioning, but not having an appropriate voice message saying ‘due to circumstances out of our control we are closed’.”

A Thurgoona couple with a wedding booked in October “dodged a bullet” when they reclaimed a $1500 deposit after learning the resort shut.