Wilderness Tours

The Central Highlands are home to some of the tallest trees in Australia, as well as many endangered species. The Central Highlands Alliance

The Central Highlands, part of the Great Dividing Range North-East of Melbourne, cover an area over a million hectares. This area contains iconic places like the Yarra Valley, the Acheron Way, Lake Mountain, and Mt Baw Baw, all surrounded by magnificent mountain forests.

These forests suppot a vast diversity of fauna and flora and are home to ancient rainforests and some of the tallest trees in Australia, includin the Ada Tree, and the 'Big Tree'. Importantly, the Yarra Ranges are home to many endangered species including the Leadbeater's Possum, the Smoky Mouse, the Sooty Owl, and the Baw Baw Frog.

The Central Highlands are also a vital catchment for Melbourrne's water, supplying over 66 per cent of Melbourne's drinking water to over 3 million people.

The Wilderness Society Victoria would like to invite you to join us for a breathtaking and informative tour of the Central Highlands, just 90 minutes East of Melbourne.

Along the way you will visit tall old-growth forests, ancient cool temperate rainforests and one of Melbourne’s water catchments. Keep your eyes peeled and you may spot one of our many threatened species. Unbelievably, despite our worst ever drought, the onset of climate change, and evidence that logging reduces water supplies by 50 per cent, over half of Melbourne’s water comes from catchments that are still open to logging.

Upcoming Wilderness Tours:

• Tours are run at any time - please contact us for details of the next tour.

The Beeches & Keppel Falls Walks Day Trip

Come for a family friendly walk along the Taggerty River and White House Creek. The Beeches walk will bring you through the picturesque Rainforest to meet beautiful tree fern gullies and tall eucalypts.

Rainforest Gallery & Ada Tree Day Trip gullies and tall eucalypts.

Magnificent 65 metre tall old growth Mountain Ash trees and 300 to 400 year old Myrtle Beech trees await us. The Rainforest Gallery is explored from an observation platform, 15 metres above the forest floor.

Download the informational pamphlet (pdf, 3.1mb)

Download the Wilderness Tours itinerary (pdf, 2.8mb)