Heathcote-Graytown National Park, Nature reserve in Greater Bendigo, Australia.
Heathcote-Graytown National Park is a protected reserve in Greater Bendigo featuring box-ironbark forests and diverse native animal populations across its landscape. The reserve spans terrain that includes ridges and valleys within the Great Dividing Range.
The reserve was established in 2002 by the Victorian Government to protect box-ironbark forests that were declining in the region. These forest types represent a key ecological system for the area.
The park protects the largest remaining box-ironbark forest, a woodland type that once covered much of central Victoria. Its eucalypts include red ironbark, grey box and yellow box, species a visitor can tell apart by bark and leaf. The forest also falls within the Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area, listed by BirdLife International for swift parrots and other woodland birds.
The park lies about 110 km north of Melbourne, just outside Heathcote, and adjoins the McIvor Ranges State Forest. Access is by road; the McIvor Highway passes through the area. No visitor facilities, camping areas or marked trails are recorded in the sources, so plan a self-sufficient visit with your own water and food.
The area forms part of an Important Bird Area that provides critical habitat for swift parrots and other woodland birds rarely found elsewhere. These bird species depend on the specific forest type for survival.
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