Mount Cole State Forest

Activities in the forest include camping, walking, four wheel driving, horse riding, and bird watching.

As the ranges face into the prevailing westerly storm track, maximum temperatures are particularly cold for the altitude and latitude.

Heavy snowfalls occur regularly throughout the year, and sub-freezing daily maximum temperatures have been recorded well into spring at Lookout Hill (965 metres).

Cold weather is present even at the height of summer: on 2 February 2005, the daily maximum did not exceed 4.5 °C (40.1 °F) at Lookout Hill.

Winters are extraordinarily cloudy, evident from the afternoon relative humidity readings at Lookout Hill.