Traveller safety information

• Walking, picnicking, sightseeing and nature study are the most popular activities.
• The Giant's Circuit walk follows an old tramline route along Lorkin Creek to the Standing Giant, a huge Mountain Ash seven metres in circumference and probably more than 300 years old. The track continues through giant tree ferns and back to the car park - a total distance of 1.8 km.
• Other walking tracks lead to old sawmill sites where sawdust heaps and other relics can be seen. The Moonlight Creek Track has gentle grades for the first kilometre and is suitable for people with limited mobility.
• Two lookouts on McDonald's Track give panoramic views over the Latrobe River valley, the Great Dividing Range and Westernport Bay.
• The Lyrebird Forest Walk. The Superb Lyrebird is often seen in patches of dense scrub along this track. More information about the Lyrebird Forest Walk.

• Moonlight Creek picnic area has toilets (with access for people with limited mobility), picnic tables, fireplaces, information and car parking.
• Camping in Mount Worth State Park is not permitted but you can camp south of the park in the Tarwin River Reserve.
• There are hotels, motels and caravan parks in nearby towns.
• Farm accommodation is available at Yarragon and Allambee.
• Baby change facilities

Before European settlement, most of the area in the Park was tall wet Mountain Ash forest with dense fern gullies. This type of vegetation still flourishes along the creeks. Logging in the 1920s, 30s and 40s removed most of the mature trees, though understorey plants remained and young Mountain Ash trees are regenerating along with Silver Wattles and Blackwood.

From 1970, the Warragul Field Naturalists Club and the Shire of Warragul worked towards reserving this area to protect some of the remaining indigenous vegetation of the western Strzeleckis. In 1975 the State Government began purchasing land for the park.

Aboriginal Traditional Owners
Parks Victoria acknowledges the Aboriginal Traditional Owners of Victoria - including its parks and reserves. Through their cultural traditions, the Boon Wurrung, Bunurong and Gunai - Kurnai identify the Mount Worth State Park as their Traditional Country.
Further information is available from Aboriginal Affairs Victoria AAV and Native Title Services Victoria .

Wombats, Swamp Wallabies, Echidnas, Sugar Gliders, Feathertail Gliders, Brush-tailed Possums, Ring-tailed Possums, bush rats, Brown Antechinuses and bandicoots are common. Koalas have been sighted and Platypuses and Eastern Water Rats swim in the creeks and dig burrows in the banks.

The Giant Gippsland Earthworm (Megascolides australis) inhabits certain areas of the Park but is never seen as it spends its entire life underground. Mount Worth State Park is the only area of protected public land where this rare and vulnerable invertebrate is known to occur and research into the species in the Park is currently being proposed.

Reptiles found include Copperhead, Red-bellied Black and Tiger Snakes, Blue-tongued Lizards and numerous skinks.

A major program of planting Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans), Mountain Grey Gum (E. cypellocarpa), Manna Gum (E. viminalis), Messmate (E. obliqua), Blue Gum (E. globulus) and Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) is in progress to restore the pasture land to forest. So far nearly 135 000 seedlings have been planted and other areas have been seeded.

• Please take your rubbish with you.
• All plants, animals, natural features and historical relics are protected and must not be disturbed or removed.
• Dogs and other pets are not permitted in the park.
• Firearms are prohibited.
• Light fires only in the fireplaces provided. No fires may be lit on days of Total Fire Ban.
• Avoid polluting streams with refuse, detergent or human waste.
• Vehicles must not be driven off roads or tracks. All vehicles must be fully road registered.
• Please keep to the walking tracks.
• Leave the park as you find it.

• Raincoats and boots are a wise precaution as you are in wet mountain forest with an average annual rainfall of about 2000 mm.
• Most access roads are narrow and winding with gravel surfaces: care is needed when driving on them.

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