Warby Range State Park is a Victorian state park just north of Glenrowan. It is 14.6 square kilometres (3,610 acre) in area, and named after Ben Warby, a pastoralist who settled in the area in 1844. There is one camping ground, "Whenams".
The 400 m rocky escarpments are believed to have been used by the Kelly gang as a lookout. In 2002, the park was expanded to include the state forest of Killawarra as part of a program of protecting Box-Ironbark forests.[1]
The park is part of the Warby-Chiltern Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of Box-Ironbark forest ecosystems and several species of threatened woodland birds dependent on them.[2]
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