Place Type
Reserves - National Parks,Reserves
Location
157.07kms SouthEast of Melbourne - Driving 193 km (2 hours 24 mins)
418.69kms SouthWest of Canberra - Driving 598 km (7 hours 7 mins)
497.83kms North of Hobart - Driving 925 km (1 day 2 hours)
Address & Contact
Tarra-bulga National Park
Victoria 3971
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Web: https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/tarra-bulga-national-park?
Information
Known for its giant Mountain Ash trees, beautiful fern gullies and ancient myrtle beeches, Tarra Bulga in South Gippsland has some of the best examples of original cool temperate rainforests of the Strzelecki Ranges. Walk to the impressive Corrigan’s Suspension Bridge, which stretches through the rainforest canopy, affording spectacular views of the lush fern gully on the forest floor below.
In 1903 the Alberton Shire Council (now Wellington Shire) asked the State Government to reserve an area of forest near Balook as a public park, describing it as having 'fern gullies unequalled in any part of Victoria'. Twenty hectares were reserved and given the name Bulga, meaning mountain.
Six years later, 140 hectares were reserved in the Tarra Valley, with this park being named after Charlie Tarra, an Aboriginal man who guided the explorer Strzelecki and his party through Gippsland in 1840.
Following recommendations by the Land Conservation Council, the two separate National Parks were joined, and an enlarged and re-named Tarra-Bulga National Park, declared in June 1986, now covers 2,014 hectares.
