Maroondah Reservoir Park

Maroondah Reservoir Park is a historic reservoir park surrounding Maroondah Reservoir near Healesville in the Yarra Ranges, Victoria, about 60 km east of Melbourne. Built around the Maroondah Dam completed in 1927 to supply Melbourne's water, the park is noted for its landscaped English-style gardens, dam wall lookout, mature forests and picnic grounds within Yarra Ranges National Park.

Visitors can expect a landscaped park set in mountain ash forest around the Maroondah Reservoir and concrete gravity dam wall. The park offers formal gardens with lawns and exotic trees, a dam wall viewing area, sealed and unsealed walking tracks, picnic areas with barbecues, and lookouts over the reservoir. Swimming, boating and fishing are not permitted as it is a protected water supply catchment. The setting is tranquil and forested with birdlife.

Maroondah Reservoir and Dam were constructed between 1920 and 1927 by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works to secure Melbourne's water supply. The concrete gravity dam and associated aqueduct system was a major interwar engineering project. The surrounding park and ornamental gardens were developed in the 1920s-1930s as a public recreation area showcasing the water supply infrastructure.

Located on the Country of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, the area holds significance as part of the broader Yarra Ranges water catchment that has sustained communities. The park reflects early 20th-century appreciation of public parklands and water infrastructure as civic assets and remains a valued community recreation and heritage landscape.