Sight · Great Otway National Park
A broad ledge waterfall on a challenging walk above Lorne.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Great Otway Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Great Otway National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Erskine Falls: Two Ways to See It“Erskine Falls is coming up, with a thirty-metre drop into a rockpool surrounded by ferns. For the closer view, take the stairs to the base platform and allow about half an hour for the return walk.”
Plays as you drive up to Splitter Falls in the Parkwolf Great Otway Tour Guide.
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Splitter Falls is a broad, low waterfall tucked into the forested hills near Lorne. It is separately marked from Erskine Falls and Straw Falls on the same walking network. The cascades spill over long rock ledges, with a large boulder on the slope above.
The documented approach starts at Erskine Falls Visitor Area: older park route information lists a difficult 4.7 km return walk. Don’t assume the nearby map pin is a drive-up stop; visitors who tried an alternate vehicle approach describe rough, 4WD-only sections or having to turn back. That route isn’t confirmed as a safe current visitor approach. Check current park track information before you set out. Parking is at the visitor-area start, not at the waterfall.
A photograph dated around 1891–1897 shows water fanning across the same low, stepped ledges, with a prominent boulder in the forested slope above. If you reach a safe viewing point, include both the cascade and the boulder in a photo; the upper rock helps show how the falls sit in the hillside.
Wildlife
204 sightingsKoalaMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
35 sightingsGrey KangarooMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
109 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
58 sightingsKookaburraMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
97 sightingsSwamp WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
20 sightingsBrushtail PossumMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Great Otway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
ModerateCora Lynn Cascades Walk4.2 km · 1.8 hr · 0.9 km awayFern shade and stepped shale cascades on a creek walk.
ModerateLemonade Creek Track4 km · 1.8 hr · 0.9 km awayTimber bridges cross fern gullies beneath tall eucalypts.
ChallengingPhantom Falls Walk: Blanket Leaf to Allenvale Mill8 km · 3.5 hr · 0.9 km awayA hard traverse from Blanket Leaf to Allenvale via Phantom Falls.
ModerateFive Mile Track8.2 km · 3 hr · 2.2 km awayRainforest shade, two river crossings, and a walk out to Lorne.
ModerateAllenvale to Phantom Falls Walk3.4 km · 1.3 hr · 5.1 km awayA short climb ends at a rain-fed cascade above the river.
ChallengingErskine Falls Circuit Walk23 km · 8 hr · 5.1 km awayFive waterfalls, repeated creek crossings, and a full Lorne loop.
EasyLower Kalimna Falls Walk6.5 km · 2.5 hr · 5.2 km awayA modest waterfall with a view from behind the falling water
ModeratePhantom Falls and The Canyon Circuit9.2 km · 3.5 hr · 5.2 km awayThree waterfalls, fern forest and a ten-metre rock cleft.
Picnic area · 0.9 km awayBlanket Leaf Picnic AreaA shaded picnic stop between Lorne and Erskine Falls.
Sight · 1.3 km awayStraw FallsA rain-fed waterfall detour with a tricky river crossing
Sight · 1.5 km awayCora Lynn CascadesA ferny forest walk to cascades spread across dark shale.
Sight · 1.6 km awayErskine FallsA fern-lined cascade rewards the steep stair descent to the rockpool.
Campground · 3.7 km awayHerberts (Wymbooliel) CampgroundA simple 20-site campground for an overnight stay.
Campground · 3.7 km awayBig Hill CampgroundAn unpowered forest camp with parrots and close-spaced pitches
Sight · 4 km awayPhantom FallsA fern-lined climb ends at a 15-metre cascade.
Sight · 4.3 km awayThe CanyonEight-metre rock walls hide in a ferny waterfall walk.Parkwolf’s Great Otway ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
