Mt Hypipamee National Park

Mt Hypipamee National Park is a scenic rainforest park with a spectacular sheer-sided explosion crater, cascades, upland rainforest and abundant wildlife. Located high on the southern Evelyn Tableland, in the Hugh Nelson Range, the park is centred around a diatreme or what is commonly referred to as a volcanic pipe or vent, thought to have been created by a massive gas explosion.

A platform at the end of a 400m walking track through the rainforest provides an uninterrupted view of the remaining crater. The crater is less than 70m across with sheer granite walls (the surface rock through which the gas exploded). Fifty-eight metres below the rim is a lake about 82m deep covered with a green layer of native waterweed. Mt Hypipamee is also famous for its possums. If you go spotlighting at night you might see the lemuroid ringtail, green ringtail or coppery brushtail possums. Park staff can advise you how to spotlight correctly to protect the animals.