07/01/2025
We are very happy to be able to welcome you back from tomorrow! Thank you so much for your patience. Halls Gap will reopen to the public tomorrow, Wednesday 8th of January at 10am.
Gariwerd/The Grampians National Park will remain closed until Friday 10th of January, when it will partially reopen.
While a huge area has burnt ( you may have heard people say bigger than Singapore) this only accounts for about a third of our National Park, leaving 2/3 untouched. What an amazing effort by all the crews to achieve this.
On Friday Mt Victory road (C222) will open. The road itself is unaffected. Everything north of this road will open. This includes McKenzie Waterfall and it’s walks, Boroka lookout, Chautauqua Peak and loop walk. In the central park area Boronia Peak walk and Venus Bath walk will be open.
Any of The Pinnacle walks, Reed lookout and the Balconies will remain closed at this stage but they are working very hard to be able o open them up soon.
The Victoria Range will be open and for the south section anything south of Cassidy Gap road with breathtaking Signal Peak, Mt Abrupt and Mt Sturgeon walks will be open. All of the northern section will be open which includes Mt Zero, Hollow Mountain and Mt Stapylton walks and the indigenous rock art sites there.
GWM water has said our water quality is unaffected and swimming in our lakes which are outside the restricted area is okay.(Bellfield is inaccessible but Lake Fyans and Lake Lonsdale)
EPA will visit the Grampians tomorrow Wednesday the 8th to do air quality testing and will report their results on the same day. However, as an asthmatic myself who was significantly affected by the air quality two weeks ago I can say that today the air was just beautiful.
This is just the info I got during todays community meeting, please fact check this post with the official channels. The most up to date info can be found at parks Victoria website, discover northern grampians social media, the EPA website and the Brambuk National Park Centre in Halls Gap
