Grants Picnic Ground
Highlights
- Discover the beauty of Sherbrooke Forest while surrounded by vibrant wildlife like lyrebirds and Rainbow Lorikeets.
- Enjoy a picnic with accessible tables and barbeques, designed for everyone to relish the great outdoors.
- Embark on the Margaret Lester Forest Walk, a gentle 200-metre path crafted for those with limited mobility.
- Explore informative boards along the track, revealing insights about the rich ecosystem of the Dandenong Ranges.
Grants Picnic Ground sits on the edge of the beautiful Sherbrooke Forest the largest section of the Dandenong Ranges National Park.
Enjoy a picnic with lyrebirds, Crimson Rosellas and Rainbow Lorikeets as company. A number of walking tracks start at the picnic ground, be dwarfed by towering Mountain Ash trees in this small pocket of cool temperate rainforest. Grants Picnic Ground is a universally accessible destination including picnic tables and barbeque which are located directly in front of the disabled parking bays.
The Margaret Lester Forest Walk is a purpose-built walking track for people with limited mobility. The walk was designed with assistance by Margaret Lester, who was a architecture graduate and paraplegic. The path contains 200 metres of asphalt path on a gentle gradient. It stretches through the forest and fern glades from the middle to upper carparks. Along the path there are information boards about the forest and its ecosystem.
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