National parks A-L
Victoria’s 36 national parks cover more than 2.6 million hectares of outstanding natural environments and scenic landscapes.
Visitors to Victoria's parks are invited to observe native plants and animals, to camp, picnic, bushwalk, and enjoy the surroundings. You are requested to observe the rules and tread lightly.
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Visit in winter for extensive snowfields, and stunning wildflower displays and bushwalks and four-wheel driving in warmer months.
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This 13,300-hectare park covers a substantial part of the Baw Baw Plateau and sections of the Thomson and Aberfeldy River valleys. Experience views, seasonal wildflowers, grassy plains and snow gums.
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Close to Melbourne and renowned for its wildflowers, this park is set in a low mountain range dissected by rocky gullies.
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The two mountains in this park provide excellent opportunities for bushwalkers, campers, climbers, birdwatchers and nature lovers.
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Located between Beechworth and the low hills surrounding Chiltern. Includes the striking Mt Pilot Range and Woolshed Falls, box-ironbark forest and contains several historic gold mining sites.
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This park extends for 100 kilometres along the wilderness coast of Victoria's East Gippsland. It protects remote beaches, tall forests, heathland, rainforest, estuaries and granite peaks.
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Explore over 300 kilometres of walking tracks through lush fern filled gullies and mountain ash forests, to Sherbrooke Forest, Dongalla Homestead, and the Thousand Steps. Excellent barbecue and picnic areas and large numbers of birds.
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This park preserves the largest remaining stand of temperate rainforest in Victoria as well as ancient wet eucalypt forests. The majority of the park is accessible only in the drier months.
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Accessible only by 30-minute passenger ferry ride, French Island is a haven of peace and serenity. Environments range from mangrove saltmarsh areas to open woodlands.
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Renowned for rugged mountain ranges and stunning wildflower displays, the park is a popular holiday destination. The 167,000-hectare park is home to abundant bird life and almost a third of Victoria's plant species.
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The park contains some of the highest quality Box-Ironbark forest in the Bendigo area, along with broombush mallee, grassy woodlands and Kamarooka mallee.
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North-west of Melbourne, the park lies in typical mallee country with low scrub and open native pine woodland. Superbly adapted birds, animals and vegetation thrive in the poor, sandy soils and searing summers.
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Only 65 km north of Melbourne, this 21,600 hectare park offer views of the Melbourne skyline, Port Phillip Bay, the Yarra Valley and across to the You Yangs, as well as forests, fern gullies and waterfalls.
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Located at the northern foothills of Victoria's Central Highlands, 150 km north-east of Melbourne. Situated on the shores of Lake Eildon, the park includes rugged hills, open woodlands and dense forest.
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This park is fringed by the waters of Lake Victoria and Lake Reeve and occupies 2,390 hectares of low-lying woodland and coastal heath. Explore Sperm Whale Head peninsula, Rotamah and Little Rotamah Islands.
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Situated 375 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The three blocks of the park have a rainfall range of 400-600mm. The range of soil types supports different vegetation across the park.
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In the south-western corner of Victoria, this park features the Glenelg River as well as a rich variety of bush plants and animals.
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