Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park

Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park protects box-ironbark forest that once covered much of north-east Victoria and contains several historic goldmining sites. Short or day-long walks can be made on vehicle tracks through open forest and a 25 kilometre historic drive is marked from Chiltern through the forest and goldfields.

Things to Do

• Drive through the forest to Donkey Hill Lookout then on to the original Indigo goldfields cemetery - about an hour and a half's round trip
• Visit the open-cut Magenta Mine which produced up to 13,000 ounces of gold between 1860 and about 1910.
• Take a self-guided tour around Chiltern. This tour takes in Dow's Pharmacy, which ran its business on the site for more than 100 years, an old smithy, the Atheneum library-museum, the Star Theatre, the Grapevine Hotel (named to honour the largest grapevine listed in Australia) and Lakeview, one of the childhood homes of Henry Handel Richardson, the author of 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony'
• Enjoy easy walking as you follow the numbered pamphlet describing natural and historical features of the park along the 8.5km White Box Walking Track
• Cycle on forest tracks at Donkey Hill in the west, Frogs Hollow and Magenta Mine and at Cyanide Dam
• Visit Woolshed Falls and take the self-guided Woolshed Falls Historic Walk
• Walk to the summit of Mt Pilot and enjoy the spectacular view
• Visit the Yeddonba Aboriginal art site
• Go bird watching and discover some of over 200 species found in the park
• Stroll, drive or cycle through the park in spring to view the wildflower wonderland.

There are no campsites in the park, but there are caravan and camping parks, and a motel in Chiltern.