Mount Donna Buang, Mountain summit in Yarra Ranges National Park, Australia

Mount Donna Buang is a 1,250-metre summit in the Yarra Ranges National Park, about 94 kilometres from Melbourne. Its upper slopes are covered with alpine ash and sub-alpine snow gums, and the summit is the closest snowfield to Melbourne. The mountain is part of the Yarra Ranges National Park, established in 1995, and the nearest serviced town is Warburton.

In the 1860s, police magistrate Joseph Anderson Panton named the 1,250-metre mountain Mount Acland. The present name, Mount Donna Buang, probably comes from the Wurundjeri language and means 'the body of the mountain'. A walking track to the summit was cut in the 1890s, and the wider Donna Buang Bridle Track, followed by today's road from Warburton, opened in 1912.

The name "Donna Buang" probably comes from the Wurundjeri language and is said to mean "the body of the mountain". The summit was long called Mount Acland, the name given in the 1860s by police magistrate Joseph Anderson Panton. Visitors today see regrown forest where cable-hauled tramways once carried logs to Warburton sawmills.

The sealed Donna Buang Road runs from Warburton to just past the Mount Donna Buang Summit Road junction; Acheron Way branches off about halfway up towards Marysville, with a 12 km unsealed middle section. The climb averages 6.2% over 16.6 km, drawing cyclists and motorcyclists. Snow cover is erratic, so check conditions before relying on snow play.

The Mount Donna Buang Skywalk at nearby Cement Creek is a canopy walkway through myrtle beech and mountain ash trees. Logging on the mountain between the early 1900s and mid-1920s used seven cable-hauled tramways, and tram rails and cables still lie in the regrown forest.