Forest Ecotourism Walking Trail

Macedon Regional Park

Length:  2.8 kilometres
Walk:  1 hour
Track:  Good
Grade:  Flat
Start:  Days Picnic Ground, Lions Head Road
Finish:  Days Picnic Ground, Lions Head Road
Nearby:  Macedon
Best Time:  Spring, early summer

This family walk introduces you to the native forests of the Macedon Ranges, passing through stands of tall eucalypts and moist gullies of beautiful ferns. Learn about the forest from interpretive signs along the way. The trail also passes the site of an old plant nursery near the Sanatorium Picnic Ground. The diversity of vegetation types provides habitat for over 150 species of native birds and a wide variety of mammals, including kangaroos, wallabies and wombats.

Loop around the peaceful tree-fringed Sanatorium Lake, constructed to supply water to a tuberculosis sanatorium built nearby in 1899 but later destroyed by fire. You can see the nearby forest changing and evolving as it springs back to life after the devastating effects of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983.

The trail links with the 29-kilometre Macedon Ranges Walking Trail, which incorporates most of Mount Macedon’s other scenic highlights, including Camels Hump, Memorial Cross and lookouts with outstanding views to Port Phillip Bay, the You Yangs and the Dandenong Ranges.

Further Information
Parks Victoria
Ph 13 19 63 (within Australia)