Hollow Mountain Walk

The Hollow Mountain Walk is a Grade 4 hiking trail.

People that are unfit or inexperienced in hiking, young kids or the elderly would consider parts of this track to be unsafe and difficult to hike.
Parts of the walk are along cliff edges, weaving and winding under rocks, so it could be pretty dangerous.

For anyone with a bit of hiking experience, it’s an amazingly, beautifully rugged short walk and this would be considered Medium in difficulty as there are some parts that are super steep where you’ll need to use your hands and pretty much climb. As the distance of the trail isn’t long and the really steep parts where you’ll need to climb are only for very short stretches, it’s really not that hard and you could be on the Mount Hollow Summit with-in about 45 minutes if you tried.

You’ll need to be agile enough to climb up and down large boulders and small cliffs.
There are some large sets of stairs that will require a medium level of fitness or just take some short breaks and you’ll be fine.

From the Hollow Mountain car park, direct to the summit and back is 3.2 kms but you don’t have to go straight there.

You can make the walk as long or as short as you want. Only 750 metres from the car park is the Gulgurn Manja Shelter Aboriginal rock art and there are multiple other tracks that you can take before or after the Hollow Mountain summit.

While making your way up to the summit, explore caves and trek around a bit to extend the walk.
If you’re short on time, about 1 km into the walk you’ll start to get some amazing views, so you could just do part of the walk but still do make sure that you come here as it’s unique and absolutely incredible.

The total elevation gained from the car park to the Hollow Mountain summit is around 190 metres although the difference is about 175 metres in elevation.

The car park elevation is 225 metres and the summit is about 400 metres.

There’s a large car park with plenty of room and facilities in the middle.

There are non-flushing toilets and there is not any drinking water available.

Horsham is 30 minutes north of Hollow Mountain, out of the Grampians National Park on the way to Adelaide or South Australia.

Halls Gap is 40 minutes south, right in the middle of the Grampians. If you’re staying in the Grampians National Park longer or heading back to Melbourne, Halls Gap is your best option.

Both of these towns have loads of places to eat, drink and sleep at. Halls Gap is the main tourist town of the Grampians and one of the most scenic towns in the state. Horsham is a much larger country town set up for permanent residents rather than tourists, but caters for both.