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Mount Buffalo National Park offers a range of activities and is an ideal camping park.
Mount Buffalo is an all-season national park with excellent facilities for a camping park. This park has sheer cliffs, impressive waterfalls, stunning flora and fauna and is an ideal camping location for your next National Park holiday. It has 31,000 hectares on offer for the avid bush hiker and is filled with plenty of wildlife such as Lyrebirds, Eastern Rosellas, wombats and swamp wallabies.
Declared a national park in 1898, Mount Buffalo is loved by bushwalkers, adventurers and birdwatchers alike – and by those who just want to take it easy in the clear mountain air. During winter Mount Buffalo offers high quality snow play and cross-country skiing and when it isn’t snowing there are numerous activities and highlights such as;
- The network of walking tracks leading to waterfalls, lookouts & granite formations
- Lake Catani canoeing, fishing and swimming
- Lake Catani Campground is reasonably flat, with firm ground, and good paths to the picnic and toilet facilities. Great all season camping park.
- The Gorge for adventure activities, spectacular lookouts & picnics
Mount Buffalo manages to cram in an extraordinary range of attractions and activities for a relatively small National Park. A stroll in the warmer months will reveal many birds, so keep an eye out for lyrebirds scratching along track edges for insects and grubs. At dusk and dawn you might see wallabies, wombats and possums, while around the Horn, raven often dart in and out of crevices to feed on the Bogong moths while peregrine falcons nest in the granite rock faces. The one bird you won’t miss is the brilliant crimson rosella which is abundant throughout the park.
Mount Buffalo is an exceptional park offering facilities for people seeking a camping park to stay at. Walk or ski-in winter camping is available at Lake Catani campground or remote camping at Mount McLeod however bookings are essential and can be made online by visiting www.parkstay.vic.gov.au or by telephoning Parks Victoria on 13 1963 or the Mount Buffalo Entrance Station on (03) 5756 2328. As an all season camping park, Mount Buffalo is an ideal camping destination.
So whether you are seeking a camping park for overnight and weekend stays or a day outing, Mount Buffalo is definitely worth a visit.
Getting Here:
Mount Buffalo National Park is about 320 km north-east of Melbourne via the Hume Freeway and Great Alpine Road. Allow about four hour’s drive time. Approach the park by the winding but sealed entrance road from Porepunkah, near Bright. Tyre chains must be carried in winter and there is an entrance fee. Annual Parks Passes and Multi Day Parks Passes are available for Mount Buffalo National Park. These can save entry fee costs for regular users, local residents and interstate visitors.
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