What we manage
Parks Victoria protects and enhances over four million hectares of parks. It is also the Local Port Manager for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port and Port Campbell and the Waterway Manager for the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers.
These areas include:
- 45 national parks
- 26 state parks
- 13 marine national parks
- 11 marine sanctuaries
- 3 wilderness parks
- 30 metropolitan parks
- 60 other parks (including regional and reservoir parks)
- more than 2,700 natural features and conservation reserves
- more than 11,000 formally registered Aboriginal cultural heritage places
- more than 2,500 non-Indigenous historic places
Parks Victoria manages more than 72,000 built assets
This includes:
- 69 visitor centre buildings
- 890 shelters
- 910 toilets
- 517 viewing lookouts
- 35 playgrounds
- 20,325 km of roads
- 909 pedestrian and vehicular bridges
- 4901 km of walking tracks
- 240 sporting facilities (e.g. golf courses, ovals and wickets)
- 41 piers and jetties in our ports
- 174 water access points (e.g. boat ramps, rowing launches and slipways), and
- 882 navigation aids
Our parks and waterways attract 126.77 million visits each year. Of these visits, 90.9 million are to parks and 35.87 million are to piers and jetties around the bays.
You can learn more about our different types of parks and what makes them special on our Discover Victoria's parks page.