The 98,700-hectare (244,000-acre) national park is situated approximately 390 kilometres (240 mi) northeast of Melbourne and 350 kilometres (220 mi) southwest of Canberra, south of the Black-Allan Line that marks part of the border between Victoria and New South Wales.

[2] Some Aboriginal relics were discovered on the Snowy River which indicated that the Kruatungulung group of the Kurnai people used to hunt here.

It was in the 1840s that cattlemen and miners visited the region and started using the higher land for summer grazing and introduced silver mining.

[3] Declared on 26 April 1979 (1979-04-26), much of the park is classified as wilderness area, where vehicles are unable to visit.

The park provides one of the last natural habitats at the Little River Gorge for the endangered brush-tailed rock wallaby.