Mount Worth State Park

Mount Worth State Park Victoria
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
Mount Worth camping area
Mount Worth State Park
Nearest town or city	Warragul
Coordinates	38°17′06″S 145°59′34″E / 38.28489947°S 145.992855°ECoordinates: 38°17′06″S 145°59′34″E / 38.28489947°S 145.992855°E
Established	1978
Area	10.4 km^2 (4.0 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Parks Victoria
Website	Mount Worth State Park
See also	Protected areas of Victoria

Mount Worth State Park is a state park in Victoria, Australia.^[1][2][3] It is located 15 km south of Warragul in the western Strzelecki Ranges. It offers rainforest walking trails and scenic views of Gippsland as well as across the Latrobe Valley to the Great Dividing Range.

The wet, mountain rainforest of mountain ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching the age of 300 years), blackwood and mountain grey gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, crimson rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Tree ferns at Mount Worth State Park

See also

• Protected areas of Victoria (Australia)

References

1. "Mount Worth State Park", Official website, Parks Victoria, retrieved 2012-01-29
2. "Mount Worth Park visitor guide" (PDF), Park Notes, Parks Victoria, November 2011, retrieved 2012-01-29
3. Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database CAPAD08, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Populations and Communities, Commonwealth of Australia, 2008, retrieved 2012-01-29