It has steep granite peaks and gentle sloping open woodland sections.

The name Langi Ghiran, a corruption of "Lar-ne-jeering" in the language of the local Djab Wurrung people, means "Home of the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos".

[2] Other parks nearby are Mount Buangor to the east and the Grampians/Gariwerd to the distant west.

The first European to climb Mount Langi Ghiran was the explorer Thomas Mitchell, on his 1836 expedition through "Australia Felix".

A short-lived "spot mill", for processing timber, was built on the northern slopes in 1940, but little evidence remains of its existence.