Hollow Mountain Visitor Facilities

Improving A Nature-Based Tourist Precinct

Challenge

Located within Victoria’s iconic Grampians National Park, the Hollow Mountain precinct was targeted for development, with a focus on improving day visitor amenities, including the realigning of access roads and relocation of facilities to provide an improved visitor experience with reduced impacts to the natural environment.

Solution

Our landscape design solution has improved visitor orientation, pedestrian flow and movement at the site through the strategic placement of facilities and directional signage for both vehicles and pedestrians.  A new carpark provides 25 car parking bays, along with 3 coach park bays and 9 mini-bus/trailer park bays, with mulched planting areas used to break-up the parking bays and preserve selected indigenous vegetation.  The local environment has been protected with works designed to minimise impact to the site, including the preservation of significant indigenous trees, while maximising the longevity of infrastructure and facilitates through the choice of materials.

Results

The Grampians National Park is considered one of Victoria’s most visited parks, attracting over an estimated 1.1 million day-visitors annually, with Hollow Mountain one of the most popular hiking destinations within the park.  The redevelopment helps to improve overall visitor experience and satisfaction of this key site, ensuring the precinct meets current and future standards for efficiency, convenience, safety and sustainability.

The development improves visitor flow and orientation to the precinct’s areas of interest, including Hollow Mountain, Summer Day Valley and Gulgurn Manja.

With safer parking amenities for cars and buses to support the Grampians National Park’s strategic planning needs for visitors to the Hollow Mountain precinct over the next 10 years.