Baw Baw National Park

Baw Baw National Park Victoria
IUCN category II (national park)
The view from Mount Baw Baw looking east across the Gippsland, in autumn 2006.
Baw Baw National Park Location of the Baw Baw National Park in Victoria
Nearest town or city	Rawson
Coordinates	37°45′50″S 146°13′23″E / 37.76389°S 146.22306°E / -37.76389; 146.22306
Established	April 1979 (1979-04)[1]
Area	135.3 km2 (52.2 sq mi)[1]
Managing authorities	Parks Victoria
Website	Baw Baw National Park
See also	Protected areas of Victoria

The Baw Baw National Park (/ˈbɔː ˈbɔː/) is a national park located on the boundary between the Victorian Alps and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. The 13,530-hectare (33,400-acre) national park is situated approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Melbourne and 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the Latrobe Valley. The park contains the forest covered Baw-Baw Plateau and surrounds the Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort.

The Baw-Baw Plateau has a number of peaks, that includes Mount Baw Baw, Mount St Gwinear, Mount St Phillack, Mount Erica and Mount Whitelaw; all largely subalpine terrane outcrops of weathered granite boulders rising from the plateau, which is covered by a forest of snow-gums, punctuated by meadows. Mount St Phillack, a granite hill on the Baw-Baw plateau standing at 1,566 metres (5,138 ft) above sea level is the park's highest peak as the slightly higher Mt Baw Baw peak is part of the ski resort area.^[2] The slopes of the plateau within the national park form the catchment areas for the Thomson River and the Thomson Reservoir, and the Tanjil and Tyers rivers.