Mount Worth State Park

Mount Worth State Park
Mount Worth State Park
Location Victoria, Australia
Nearest City Warragul
Coordinates 38°16′00″S 146°00′00″E / 38.2666667°S 146°E / -38.2666667; 146
Area 10.40 km²
Date of Establishment 1975
Governing Bodies Parks Victoria
Mount Worth camping area

Mount Worth State Park is a state park in Victoria, Australia. It is located 15 km south of Warragul in the western Strzelecki Ranges. It offers rainforest walking trails and scenic views of Gippsland as well as across the Latrobe Valley to the Great Dividing Range.

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.[1]

Tree ferns at Mount Worth State Park

See also

  • Protected areas of Victoria (Australia)

References