Creswick Regional Park (Parks Victoria) — Attraction in Creswick

Great little spot just to sit and relax in a bush setting, or walk the sandy, pretty dry Slaty Creek bed.....(good chance to try your hand with a Gold detector) There is a rotunda with a very fancy table (dumped) for a bush setting, no seats tho..two other picnic tables. There are 3 seperate areas, none are very big so it's first in best dressed.....Could fit a few tents/swags etc in grassy area... No showers or water, but Cleanest Long Drop I have come across, no odour at all....Dogs are allowed...

We camped at at slay creek campground, and it was free and closer to everything. Normal sedans will make it through the park as long as you drive slow. The place is lovely but there aren't many animals around. That seemed odd. We had a metal detector and was keen on exploring, but if you want to find gold, don't use a metal detector. The water in the river has really tiny gold dust which is impossible to capture with a metal detector. Creswick is close. Blue waters is worth visiting although...

Well signposted section of the Goldfields walking track. Lots of history from goldrush times. Amazing that about 4000 people lived in the Chapel Flat area. Apart from the actual clearing there no trace of habitation or of the Wesleyan Chapel. There is a lot of evidence of the gold miners industriousness in the amount of quartz they dug and broke up trying...