Grants Picnic Ground

Grants Picnic Ground is a popular picnic and nature recreation area within Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges National Park, near Kallista in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, Victoria. Surrounded by tall mountain ash forest, it is best known for its long-running bird-feeding experience where visitors can hand-feed sulphur-crested cockatoos, crimson rosellas and galahs. The site offers picnic facilities, walking tracks and a kiosk, serving as a key visitor hub for the Dandenong Ranges.

Visitors can expect a forested picnic area set among tall mountain ash and fern gullies in Sherbrooke Forest. The main attraction is the supervised bird-feeding area where large numbers of sulphur-crested cockatoos, galahs and crimson rosellas land to feed from visitors' hands. The site has open lawns, sheltered picnic tables and electric barbecues, a kiosk selling light refreshments and bird seed, toilets and marked walking tracks leading into the surrounding forest.

Grants Picnic Ground has operated as a public picnic and recreation site in Sherbrooke Forest since the 1920s-1930s, pre-dating the formal declaration of Dandenong Ranges National Park in 1987. It developed as a key visitor hub for the Dandenong Ranges, long associated with managed bird feeding and forest recreation.

Located on the traditional Country of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, the area holds natural heritage value for its mountain ash forest and native birdlife and has long served as a community recreation and nature-appreciation site for Victorians and visitors to the Dandenong Ranges.