Planning an Excursion
Parks Victoria offers educational services in a range of parks and other sites across the state.
Key Education and Interpretation sites
Parks Victoria has a range of Education and Interpretation Sites across Victoria that can cater your school group's needs. Offering a range of fun, hands on curriculum (Victorian Essential Learnings Standards and CSFII) based activities, tours and programs, our Education Centres are located at Wilsons Promontory, The Grampians (Brambuk), Dandenong Ranges National Parks and Serendip Sanctuary. Other key sites also offer year round education programs for large group bookings include Werribee Park, Buchan Caves Reserve and Wonthaggi State Coal Mine. Entrance and/or activity fees apply. To contact one of our Education Officers or to make a park booking, please call the Parks Victoria Information Centre on 13 1963.
Ranger Lead
There are many parks across the state offering Ranger-led activities for school groups. Services may range from a park welcome and introduction to participation in Lyrebird surveys or a coordinated planting activity. All these programs are dependant on local resourcing and staff availability, but some projects may be supported by Parks Victoria Environment Corps. Parks include Organ Pipes and Kinglake National Parks or Coolart Wetlands & Homestead to name a few. As services available vary from site to site, use our Find A Park Search to get you started or call our Parks Victoria Information Centre on 13 1963 to see if a Ranger will be available to talk to your school.
Guided Adventures and Activities with Tour Operators
Tour Operators play a key role in helping you access and enjoy parks across the state. Parks Victoria currently licenses about 270 tour operators, who in offer guided tourism and recreation opportunities in many land and marine parks across Victoria . Operators provide recreational and outdoor educational services to school groups including rock climbing, abseiling, mountain bike riding, boating, bushwalking, snorkelling, surfing, canoeing and more can be experienced through existing park based programs. For more information on current licensed tour operators, visit www.parkweb.vic.gov.au and select Guided Tours from the main menu.
Do It Yourself (DIY)
Many parks offer fun things to see and do including DIY self-guided trails. If you'd like to run your own activity in a Parks Victoria location, our parks are open every day of the year. Feel free to Find A Park, using our search tool or contact our Information Centre on 13 1963 to speak directly to a Ranger at your chosen location. Rangers have the most up to date information about their park and can enhance the value of your visit by providing details of changes to the site and surroundings, warnings of days of Total Fire Ban, and road closures. Before setting out on an excursion or fieldtrip remember to contact the local park staff about your planned activity. Don't forget to visit our Tips For Teachers page if you're planning a class visit to a park.
