Avon Wilderness Park

The Avon Wilderness Park provides a virtually undeveloped and unspoilt area in the south of the Australian Alps in Victoria dar. It is one of the eleven Alpine national parks and reserves that have been added to the Australian National Heritage List.

The 39,650 -acre park has been protected since 1987 and in it grows a giant eucalyptus and subalpine forests. In the park there is no walking or driving distances and no accommodation. Persons entering the park must be well equipped and prepared. Hiking is possible and the access road to the park is via Licola. Furthermore, fish can be caught and used in skiing and canoeing are made. Because of its remote and inaccessible location of the park for adventure hiking, rock climbing and outdoor adventures is used. In the summer it is very hot and dry, falls in winter snow in the higher elevations.

Hiking is by card on the Razorback and Purgatory Spurs and along the main valleys of the Avon River and Turton River, furthermore, at the end of Wellington plateau can be climbed.

This park is managed alongside the Big Desert Wilderness Park and Wabba Wilderness Park from the Parks Victoria.

On 7 November 2008 the Park in the Australian National Heritage List was taken.

The Aborigines of Gunai consider the area of the Avon Wilderness Park as their traditional lands.