page_title: Warrandyte State Park
section_title: Access
hierarchical_section_title: Warrandyte State Park / Access
caption_attribution_description: Backburning in the Warrandyte State Park in central Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia. Photo taken by myself in 2008.
context_page_description: Warrandyte State Park is a state park, located in Warrandyte, east of Melbourne, Victoria on the banks of the Yarra River and surroundings. The park comprises 586 hectares of remnant bushland in various locations throughout Warrandyte and Wonga Park around Pound Bend, Fourth Hill, Black Flat, Yarra Brae and various other locations in the area. It hosts many significant geographical, environmental, archaeological and historical sites, such as the site of the first gold discovery in Victoria in 1851 and preserves the sites of former gold mines and tunnels. It is a popular destination for school and community groups and is frequented by local bush walkers and hikers.
  Land now occupied by the park was initially occupied by Indigenous Australians of the Wurundjeri nation. After European settlement, gold was discovered in Warrandyte, and the area was mined for a number of years. Frequent clearing had at one stage removed all the vegetation in the area, and bushfires have erased much of the recent human architectural history of the area.
context_section_description: Fourth Hill - access to the fourth hill area can be made via various sealed and unsealed streets branching from Yarra Street.
  Tunnel Street
caption: Controlled burning in the state park around Fourth Hill, 2008
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