Warby Range State Park

Warby Range State Park was a Victorian state park just north of Glenrowan. In 2010 the park became part of the newly declared Warby-Ovens National Park. It is in area, and named after Ben Warby, a pastoralist who settled in the area in 1844. There is one camping ground, "Whenams".HistoryThe 400 m rocky escarpments are believed to have been used by the Kelly gang as a lookout. In 2002, the park was expanded to include the state forest of Killawarra as part of a program of protecting Box-Ironbark forests.EnvironmentThe park is part of the Warby-Chiltern Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of Box-Ironbark forest ecosystems and several species of threatened woodland birds dependent on them.