Most people drive straight past the Prom's northern ranges on the way to Tidal River. This walk stops, climbs, and takes you into a side of the park most visitors never see.
Climb 6km return through heathland, woodland and 384-million-year-old granite into the wild north of Wilsons Prom, with a local guide who knows the story behind every rock and track. Vereker is the Prom's northernmost range. It's the first refuge wildlife reaches coming into the park, and the front line protecting it from natural predators that follow across the Yanakie Isthmus.
Along the way, the bush comes alive. You'll hear the whip-crack of the eastern whipbird and its mate's sharp reply, and see emus and swamp wallabies grazing the grasslands below the range and yellow-tailed black cockatoos tearing into banksias. Somewhere in the heath is the eastern bristlebird, critically endangered in Victoria and given a second chance here in 2022.
Then the summit, with the whole north of the park laid out below you, from Cape Liptrap to Port Welshpool and south to Tongue Point and Shellback Island. Stand there a moment and the Prom stops being scenery. It becomes a wild place you've walked into, and one you'll carry home with you.
Moderate. Expect steep sections, steps and uneven, sometimes slippery ground. Not recommended for guests with existing knee or ankle injuries.