Creswick Regional Park

At Creswick Regional Park, visitors can encounter wildlife in diverse natural environments, from wetlands and lakes to plantation hills and flat grasslands. Explore a reforested landscape of native bushland and see fascinating remains from mining days.

Walkers can follow easy trails that wind around the gentle hills or set off on an adventure through Victoria’s goldfields country. See the park in a whole new way by cycling and exploring the many open roads and signposted shared tracks in the park. Creswick comes alive with wildflowers in spring, but this beautiful park draws nature-lovers in all year round.

Explore the park via the network of tracks, from the gentle Landcare Walk circuit to the 240km Goldfields Track stretching along the Great Dividing Range between Bendigo, Ballarat and Buninyong. Take the La Gerche Forest Walk and see the reforesting work of John La Gerche, who set in motion the re-planting projects along the mining-eroded gullies and slopes of Creswick. La Gerche’s original plantings are now over 100 years old. Follow the loop track that winds through open forest and creeks at Koala Park, unlike its name Koalas are very rarely seen here anymore.

Popular with visitors and wildlife, St Georges Lake was once a mining dam but is now a summer base for water activities and idyllic picnics. Barbecue facilities and toilets are available. The gently undulating trail around the lake is a pleasant, easy walk and a great opportunity for birdwatching.

Visitors curious about goldfields history can visit the heritage site of Eatons Dam, try their luck at fossicking for gold in Slaty Creek or head off along the Goldfields Track that stretches along the Great Dividing Range. The four-hour walk from Creswick Regional Park to Ballarat follows water races and trails marked by the same quartz stones that the miners used to guide their journeys when travelling at night.

The Slaty Creek Campgrounds provide three seperate secluded camping areas with fireplaces and at Slaty Creek No.1 accessible toilets. You might catch sight of koalas and wallabies, as well as the abundant birdlife that live in the canopies.