Our Region

  • Hanging Rock, Newham
  • Eucalypts in the Mist
  • View of Mt Macedon
  • Conglomerate Gully Creek, Riddells Creek
  • U.L. Daly Nature Reserve, Gisborne
  • Eucalypt Canopy
  • Fern Gully
  • Eucalypt Forest
  • Bald Hill, Kyneton
  • Gisborne Marshlands
  • Barrm Birrm Track, Riddells Creek
  • Conglomerate Gully Outcrop, Riddells Creek
  • Forest Ferns
  • Rocky Terrain
  • Sanatorium Lake
  • Pyrete Range Track
  • Snow on Mt Gisborne
  • Stanley Park Waterfall
  • Black Hill, Edgecombe
  • Woodend Wetlands

The biodiversity found in the Macedon Ranges is unique and highly significant. The varying topography, range of altitudes and localised climatic patterns results in many diverse ecosystems hosting a wide range of native plants and animals. 

The Macedon Ranges landscape is very diverse, with contrasting features such as the mountainous areas of the Great Dividing Range including Mount Macedon, volcanic eruption points at Hanging Rock, Camels Hump, Bald Hill, Mount Gisborne, Magnet Hill, Mount Aitken and Mount Bullengarook, and the grassy, flat volcanic plains around Kyneton, Gisborne and Lancefield. Several landscapes in the Shire have been recognised for their state significance.

Macedon Ranges Shire has 33 different vegetation types represented across three bioregions (Victorian Volcanic Plains, Central Victorian Uplands and Goldfields) that cover a range of broad vegetation types including woodlands, grasslands, forests and wetlands.