Crystal Brook Picnic Area — Attraction in Melbourne

Very good walking and running trails through beautiful bushland, gas BBQs, big grassed picnic areas which are big enough for several cricket matches, lots of parking, lots of wildlife to see including wombats, echidnas, wallaby the occasional fallow deer, and lots of eastern grey kangaroos. These are best seen on the grassy areas in the early morning and last hour of daylight as during the day they are usually bedded up in the bush. The negatives one word; litter. This is a take your rubbish home park. There are no bins. Please manage your litter it's not hard to bring a rubbish bag and drop it in your bin when you get home. Most people do the right thing but some throw there rubbish into the bush or I ignore it as it gets blown away....

Perfect day to spend the day with family and friends. Heaps of space to families to have their own private picknicks. But unfortunately I've seen some families leave their rubbish behind without putting it away. Children will go crazy for its' play area. In my experience the only bad thing was the mobile public toilets.. the wind that come down through them to the park stinks. It would be ideal if they can move it or come up with...

Picnic area with tables, a small play area and what I think are the only toilets in the park - portaloos just off the parking lot. The sweep of parkland is pretty, and said to be good for watching kangaroos early in the morning or around dusk. I came in the morning too late to see them, but assume this is true because the grass is literally covered with...