Mount St Gwinear Trail

Baw Baw National Park

Length: 2.5 kilometres
Walk: 1.5 hours one way
Track: Good
Grade: Moderate
Start: Mount St Gwinear car park
Finish: Mount St Gwinear
Nearby: Erica or Walhalla
Permits/bookings: None required.

The gentle walk to the summit of Mount St Gwinear winds through heathland, wildflowers, snow gum forests and small snow plains. The views, stretching across the valleys of the Thomson and Aberfeldy rivers and into the Victorian Alps, are a perfect reward. Take a small detour to nearby Walhalla, one of the world’s richest gold-producing sites in the late 19th century, now a picturesque heritage town.