Wonderland Cottages

02/05/2025

What a stunning morning for !

20/04/2025

Everyone has been working so hard and we're very happy to see all the reopened areas!

09/03/2025

This amazing section of the Peaks Trail is unaffected by the and open RIGHT NOW!

Day walk 11 of the Grampians Peaks Trail leads over three peaks: Signal Peak, Mt Abrupt / Mud-Dadjug and the Piccaninny / Bainggug. Here, you can get the bes...

03/03/2025

An outstanding day walk on an already fantastic trail: The Major Mitchell Plateau / Durd Durd ticks all the boxes for us!

Day walk 7 of the GPT leads over the Major Mitchell plateau / Durd Durd and is one of the longest walks on this trail. The plateau is very exposed and often ...

24/02/2025

Grampians / Gariwerd Forever!
This video was taken before the 2024/2025 fires. Nature will be back and so will be the Grampians Peaks Trail!

Day Walk 6 of the Grampians Peaks Trail offers a spectacular climb to Mt William with fantastic views north towards Halls Gap.Sponsor: https://www.gptaccommo...

26/01/2025

2/3 of our beautiful park are completely untouched, Today I ventured for the first time into the affected areas. It's humbling and increases my gratitude towards all the emergency management staff even more. However, this pic captures the overall feeling quite well.

07/01/2025

We are very happy to be able to welcome you back from tomorrow! Thank you so much for your patience. Halls Gap will reopen to the public tomorrow, Wednesday 8th of January at 10am.
Gariwerd/The Grampians National Park will remain closed until Friday 10th of January, when it will partially reopen.
While a huge area has burnt ( you may have heard people say bigger than Singapore) this only accounts for about a third of our National Park, leaving 2/3 untouched. What an amazing effort by all the crews to achieve this.

On Friday Mt Victory road (C222) will open. The road itself is unaffected. Everything north of this road will open. This includes McKenzie Waterfall and it’s walks, Boroka lookout, Chautauqua Peak and loop walk. In the central park area Boronia Peak walk and Venus Bath walk will be open.
Any of The Pinnacle walks, Reed lookout and the Balconies will remain closed at this stage but they are working very hard to be able o open them up soon.
The Victoria Range will be open and for the south section anything south of Cassidy Gap road with breathtaking Signal Peak, Mt Abrupt and Mt Sturgeon walks will be open. All of the northern section will be open which includes Mt Zero, Hollow Mountain and Mt Stapylton walks and the indigenous rock art sites there.

GWM water has said our water quality is unaffected and swimming in our lakes which are outside the restricted area is okay.(Bellfield is inaccessible but Lake Fyans and Lake Lonsdale)
EPA will visit the Grampians tomorrow Wednesday the 8th to do air quality testing and will report their results on the same day. However, as an asthmatic myself who was significantly affected by the air quality two weeks ago I can say that today the air was just beautiful.

This is just the info I got during todays community meeting, please fact check this post with the official channels. The most up to date info can be found at parks Victoria website, discover northern grampians social media, the EPA website and the Brambuk National Park Centre in Halls Gap

21/12/2024

Due to the bushfire Gariwerd (Grampians) National Park is closed. This means a full parks closure for ALL of the National Park. The closure will be in place for a while.

If you have a booking with us until next Friday please be advised that it will not be proceeding. You cannot currently enter Halls Gap and will be turned back by police! We will contact you soon to make alternative arrangements. However, please be aware that I'm trying to sort this on my phone in my car at the side of the road, while trying to figure out what my family and friends from the community are going to do the next little while, so please be patient.

It is strongly advisable that you have the VicEmergency App on your phone for reliable updates.

20/12/2024

Gariwerd/Grampians National Park is now closed. Halls Gap has been evacuated. Please be patient while we reach out to affected guests..

19/12/2024

There is a bushfire affecting the southern Grampians.
It is over 40kms away from Halls Gap.
The Grampians is a massive National Park and currently 3% in the south are affected. This is a fire which is predicted to be around for quite a while.

The central Grampians including Halls Gap as well as the northern Grampians are not affected. All the walks/lookouts etc in these areas are open.
It is business as usual here unless advised otherwise by emergency services via the Vic emergency app.
If the official Vic emergency services recommend to leave Halls Gap we will and only then will Wonderland Cottages be closed. We will keep all our current and future guests in the loop.

The Grampians tourist road via Dunked is closed between Dunked and Silverband Falls. (This is the route guests who come from the Great Ocean Road take) Since Moyston officially is part of the warning area we recommend coming to Halls Gap only via Stawell and NOT via Ararat/Moyston/Pomonal C222 (which is the route Google maps often recommends) The scenic C222 from Halls Gape to the north (via the lookouts and McKenzie Falls) is open.

15/08/2024

Winter is nearly over, Wildflower season is close

15/08/2024

Winter is coming to an end. Wildflower season is just around the corner!