Where can you see the Eastern Ring-tailed Possum?
Some of the best places to see the Eastern Ring-tailed Possum in the wild include Bunya Mountains National Park (Australia), Lamington National Park (Australia) and Lower Glenelg National Park (Australia) — among 35 wildlife hotspots across Australia. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Alpine National Park
Australia
+64 birds+2 mammals
High in Victoria's southeastern ranges, where cool temperate forests grip steep mountainsides and alpine grasslands stretch across windswept plateaus, Alpine National Park protects one of southeastern…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBarrington 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 PARKBelair National Park
Adelaide, Australia
+126 birds+18 mammals
Eucalyptus woodland and native shrubland cloak the low hills of this Adelaide park, where ancient quartzite ridges rise above the plains of South Australia's densest metropolitan…
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 PARKBouddi National Park
Gosford, Australia
+147 birds+17 mammals
Sandstone ridges rise sharply from the Tasman Sea along the central New South Wales coast, their weathered faces etched by millennia of salt spray and storm…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBribie Island National Park
Brisbane, Australia
+284 birds+20 mammals
Across tidal flats and shallow waterways north of Brisbane, Bribie Island National Park spreads across nearly four hundred square kilometres of subtropical coastal wilderness—a patchwork of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBunya Mountains National Park
Australia
+149 birds+11 mammals
Where subtropical rainforest meets open eucalyptus woodland on the elevated plateau of southeastern Queensland, Bunya Mountains National Park unfolds across 483 square kilometres of some of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKChiltern-Mt Pilot National Park
Australia
+229 birds+12 mammals
Granite ridges and eucalyptus woodlands define this 869-square-kilometre park straddling the border between Victoria and New South Wales, where rugged terrain rises sharply from gentler foothill…
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