Where can you see the Common Wombat?
Some of the best places to see the Common Wombat in the wild include Wilsons Promontory National Park (Australia), Lake Eildon National Park (Australia) and Heathcote National Park (Australia) — among 20 wildlife hotspots across Australia. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Barrington Tops National Park
Australia
+175 birds+47 mammals
Where the New England Plateau rises above the Hunter Valley, temperate rainforest cloaks the highest reaches of Barrington Tops, its dense canopy fed by year-round precipitation…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBen Boyd National Park
Eden, Australia
+255 birds+47 mammals
Where the temperate forests of the far south coast meet towering sea cliffs, Ben Boyd National Park unveils one of New South Wales' most dramatic coastal…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBlue Mountains National Park
Australia
+220 birds+43 mammals
Dramatic sandstone cliffs rise in tiers across this mountainous plateau west of Sydney, their rust-coloured faces weathered into amphitheatres and gorges where eucalyptus forest clings to…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBudawang National Park
Australia
+80 birds+17 mammals
Rugged sandstone ridges rise dramatically across the New South Wales Southern Tablelands, their weathered faces sculpted by millennia of wind and water into a landscape of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCoorong National Park
Australia
+217 birds+15 mammals
Where the Murray River meets the Southern Ocean, a chain of shallow lagoons stretches across the South Australian coast, separated from the sea by a ribbon…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park
Australia
+72 birds+8 mammals
Where glacial valleys plunge between quartzite peaks, Tasmania's Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park unfolds as a temperate wilderness of uncommon grandeur. The park's terrain ranges…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKFreycinet National Park
Coles Bay, Australia
+115 birds+9 mammals
Granite peaks rise abruptly from the Tasmanian coast where Coles Bay opens into the Freycinet Peninsula, sculpting one of southeastern Australia's most dramatically vertical national parks.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGirraween National Park
Australia
+193 birds+21 mammals
Granite boulders rise like the bones of the earth across these 278 square kilometres of southeastern Queensland, where the Great Dividing Range descends towards the coastal…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHeathcote National Park
Sydney, Australia
+119 birds+16 mammals
Sandstone ridges and eucalypt woodlands rise from the Cumberland Plain southwest of Sydney, where Heathcote National Park unfolds across 82 square kilometres of bushland shaped by…
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