Erskine Falls and Straw Falls
Car park options
- Erskine Falls car park (300m return walk to falls 1st lookout, 700 m to 2nd lookout)
Walking track information (Erskine River Track)
- Start: Erskine Falls car park
- Finish: Lorne
- Distance: 7.5 km one way
- Duration: 3 hours
- Difficulty: Strenuous
Details
Erskine Falls is a short drive out of Lorne on appropriately named Erskine Falls Road. It is one of the most popular falls in the Otways and easily accessible. A five-minute walk from the car park brings you to a lookout of the falls, cascading 30 metres into a beautiful tree fern gullyYou also can take steps down to the Erskine River to view the falls from below. . Straw Falls are a 15m cascade on the Erskine River and are a further 400m downstreams of Erskine Falls. Experienced walkers can follow the river from Erksine Falls to Lorne. The 7.5km one-way walk takes about three hours and passes Straw Falls and Splitter Falls. It should not be attempted when water levels are high.