Eagle Point via Og, Gog and Magog Mount Buffalo National Park

3.4/5 rating (9 votes)

Walk Length: 10 km
Walk duration: 4 - 5 hours
Walk Grade: Medium
Walk Style: Return, Circuit
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Walk Summary

Walk Category: Day

Getting There: Car

Nearest Town: Porepunkah

Walk Area: North East Victoria

Distance from Melbourne GPO: 347 km

Mobile Phone Coverage: Yes but patchy and coverage varies by provider

Walk Details Collated: October 2006

Walk Details Provided By: Wangaratta Out and About, Border Bushwalking Club, Benalla Bushwalking Club & Warby Range Bushwalkers

Walk Description

Start and end at the reservoir. The walk commences by retracing 200m of the vehicle trip and turning north up the Mt McLeod Road. About 200 m up this road there is a marked track to the west.

The track winds uphill to the turn off to Og, Gog, Magog. Gog and Magog were legendary giants taken as prisoners to Britain in ancient times. They served as porters at a palace that once stood on the site of London's Guildhall. Og, an antediluvian giant who escaped Noah's flood seems to have joined them there. There is a good view over the plateau from the rocks named after the giants.

The track then heads out to Eagle Point; it is an easy and pleasant ramble. From the top of Eagle Point there are views to Lake Mokoan, near Benalla, 70km to the west, and to the rugged bluff of Mt. Cobbler about 50km to the south.

Return to the reservoir via the route out or by turning south and completing a circuit as shown on the walk map.

Walk Map

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Download Eagle_Point_Og_Gog_Magog.pdf Download Eagle_Point_via_Og_Gog_and_Magog.gpx

Precautions

There are fixed metal ladders (replaced and upgraded in 2012) which must be climbed for the view at Eagle Point.

Best Season

Spring, Summer, Autumn

Facilities

Gorge Day visitor area:

Dingo Dell cafe and visitor centre:

The Reservoir Picnic Area:

Related Walks

Mollison's Galleries Mt Dunn Circuit Mt Dunn and Macs Point Mt McLeod

Page updated

Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Getting There

Drive towards Bright via Hume Highway, Wangaratta and Myrtleford. Take the turn off to Mt Buffalo near Porepunkah. Drive up Mt Buffalo and once you have reached the Buffalo plateau, continue on past the left turn to the chalet, past the park ranger's office, and Reservoir Road is on the right about 200m past the ranger's office. It is about a kilometre from the chalet turn-off. Reservoir Road is good gravel. It is about 3.5 km to the reservoir where there is parking and a shelter.