Mount Buffalo National Park was established in 1898 when 1,166 hectares of land around Eurobin Falls was temporarily reserved as a national park. Ten years later this area was enlarged by 9,240 hectares and at the same time made a permanent national park. Mount Buffalo is one of Victoria’s oldest and best-loved national parks. It is a geological treasure, rich in plant and animal life.

Mount Buffalo was first visited by local Aboriginal tribes who gathered each summer to feast on Bogong moths. This small, brown moth migrates each year from breeding grounds in Queensland and New South Wales to the high peaks of the Australian Alps. Roasted, the moths provided a rich, high protein diet. Tribes gathered each year at corroboree grounds for marriages and initiations, then moved to the high country where the moths clustered in caves and rock crevices. Early settlers remarked upon the emaciated men and women making their way to the mountains, returning months later sleek, shiny and fat.