Jumping Creek shelter closure
The Jumping Creek shelter is currently closed until further notice.
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Warrandyte State Park
The closest state park to Melbourne, following the Yarra River through Wurundjeri Country, where current notices cover overnight deer-control closures across the Middle Yarra landscape and a closed shelter at Jumping Creek.
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25 Aug 2026, 1:07 pm AEST
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Night park closures for deer control work
Deer control works will be taking place in a number of locations within the Middle Yarra landscape. These include: Jumping Creek Reserve, Mt Lofty Reserve, Pound Bend Reserve, The Common (Warrandyte State Park), Kearneys, Pontville, Tikalara, Morrisons, Seawards, Longridge, Overbank/Gaybrooke Block, Glynns Reserve (Yarra Valley Parklands) and the Yanakie Block, One Tree Hill and Rifle Range Reserve (Warrandyte-Kinglake Nature Conservation Reserve) and the Biolink area of Kinglake National Park. The goal of this project is to reduce deer populations to mitigate deer impacts on the values in the surrounding area. This program will be conducted by professional contract shooters and will operate between the 13th of July 2026 and 30th June 2027 – excluding public holidays, school holidays and weekends. The program will be conducted in the areas highlighted on the attached map. The affected areas within the park/reserve will be closed between the hours of 4pm and 6am during nights of control. Signs will be displayed at all official entrance points to the park/reserve when shooting is in progress. If you have any questions regarding the program, call the Parks Victoria Information Centre on 13 1963. Attachments: Warrandyte SP deer control zones 26-27 (1) (660KB)
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Warrandyte State Park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the traditional Country of the Wurundjeri Peoples, and is the closest state park to Melbourne - a place for bushwalkers, canoeists, birdwatchers and families within easy reach of the city. The popular Pound Bend section has a picnic area set among the manna gums lining the Yarra River, with toilets, a canoe launching ramp and easy walking trails accessible to visitors with limited mobility, including the Pound Bend River Walk, a gentle 2.4 km, one-hour return walk upstream through riparian forest.
The recorded conditions are of two different kinds. Deer-control works bring night closures to a number of locations across the Middle Yarra landscape, and the notice names sites well beyond this park - Jumping Creek Reserve, Mt Lofty Reserve, Pound Bend Reserve, The Common in Warrandyte State Park, Glynns Reserve in Yarra Valley Parklands and others - so the closure is regional rather than park-wide, and which section you are visiting decides whether it affects you. Separately, the Jumping Creek shelter is closed until further notice, which is a single facility rather than an area.
Before visiting, check the official Parks Victoria page for the current control dates and the list of affected locations, and check river conditions if you plan to canoe. This site’s last-check time reflects automated retrieval, not an on-site inspection, and no matching condition here does not mean every track, picnic area or river access point at Warrandyte is open.
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Night park closures for deer control work