Toorongo Falls - Baw Baw NP - VIC

Walk:  Toorongo Falls loop.

Distance/Type:   2.2km / Round Trip

Terrain/Rating: Slight incline along the Toorongo River for 30 mins to the first falls then works its way back down via track loop. Easy.

Start / Finish Time:  3pm  / 4pm (Conservative Times)

Start / Finish Location:  Tooronga Falls carpark.

Trip Summary: 
This would be a nice walk to take the family. About 1 to 1.5 hour loop walk with 2 waterfalls and a nice river saddling the tracks for most of it. There are quite a lot of areas where you can walk to the waters edge and I was lucky enough to encounter some wildlife and nice berries on this trip. The only hassle is its quite a drive to get there being about 30 mins short of the Mt Baw Baw summit along the Mt. Baw Baw tourist road.  Theres a 15 minute drive up the Tooronga Valley dirt road that leads you past a free camping area (seems to be be popular with dirtbikes) before reaching the Tooronga Falls carpark. 

Trip Details:
From the carpark head up the main track to the right of the toilet block.

The track follows the Toorongo River for a few hundred metres before you reach a bridge that crosses over it.
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50 meters after the bridge you come to the track loop intersection sign with Toorongo Falls to the right and the direct walk to Ampitheatre Falls to the left. 

The sign directs everyone to do a counter-clockwise walk around the loop to take in both falls.

The track continues to follow the river along a beautiful fern gullied path.

Luckily on my trip I came across a lyrebird that was chirping away with a cacophony of sounds.
To listen to some of the sounds from this amazing bird go here.

After another few hundred metres as you get closer to the waterfall, moss laden boulders start to line the path.

 

At about 30 minutes into the walk you reach the Toorongo Falls and its viewing platform.

Toorongo Falls viewing platform.

There was a lot of water in these falls which I thought was surprising seeing as we had not had any significant rain for a few months and it was the middle of summer.

Toorongo Falls.

From here you continue along the other track that takes about 10 mins to get to the Ampitheatre Falls.

Ampitheatre Falls.

There is a metal caged lookout that hangs out over the river in front of the falls.

Ampitheatre Falls viewing platform.

Ampitheatre Falls.

From here the track follows the river and heads back down to join up at the other leg at the loop intersection after another 15 mins or so. Retrace your steps to the carpark or head along the vehicle track directly straight off the bridge.  There is a picnic area at the carpark off this track which has nice views of the area.

Toorongo Falls picnic area.

The toilet block at the carpark has flush toilets. The toilet block at the camping area 500m up the road looked most likely to be pit type.



Toorongo Falls camping area.

 

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