see also:

• Mansfield region campgrounds
• Tolmie recreation reserve
• non-commercial camp grounds for tents 2-4 hours from Melbourne
• photography and camping main index page

• Spring Creek Sawmill & Kiln Ruins Camp and Day Visitor Area
  • this is a nice forest camp with toilets and start point for some bushwalks eg. up to the summit
  • the best camp I found on Mt Samaria (ps. did not find Wild Dog or Camphora camp to compare)
• Blue Range Camping and Picnic Area
  • offers a small, basic camp site of 3 fire pits - personally I would probably skip this one
  • Toilet facilities are across the road in the picnic area which is quite nice and next to a nice stream (Blue Range Creek) which flows after rains
  • 20km, 20min to the west via Bridge Creek
  • elevation 400m
• Camphora campground Mt Samaria
  • 32km, 41min via Blue Range camp ground
  • elevation 830m
  • just a roundabout around a tree at the end of a gravel side road with room perhaps for one tent, no toilets, no walks, no water - skip it
  • hmmm… maybe I missed something - and only saw the roundabout and not the 150m walk-in campground?
• Wild Dog camping area
  • missed this one too

from north to south along Mt Samaria Rd:

Mt Samaria lookout tiny roadside bushcamp with a view on a sharp bend	Nearby walk to summit

Next option to walk to summit	Spring Creek sawmill camp ground
Next option to walk to summit from Spring Creek sawmill campground	Spring Creek sawmill camp ground south site
Another hike option from Spring Creek sawmill campground	Spring Creek sawmill
map detail	Spring Creek sawmill kiln ruins
View from Rocky lookout to east	View to south east coming down from Mt Samaria drive
Blue Range day picnic area	Blue Range day picnic area stream