Victoria Park Nature Reserve

Victoria Park Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales, Australia.

It sits on an undulating high rainfall plain near Alstonville, with red-brown soil derived from a nearby basaltic flow. The reserve consists of eight hectares (20 acres) of original rainforest and other areas that are being re-vegetated.

The reserve is part of a group of small nature reserves that aim to conserve rainforests typical of the once extensive Big Scrub. The Big Scrub, which covered 75,000 hectares (190,000 acres), was largely cleared for agriculture in the late 19th century.

Victoria Park Nature Reserve offers amenities such as wheelchair access, a wooden boardwalk, pit toilets, tables, gas barbecues, and information boards. It is an ideal location for picnics and barbecues. The reserve is home to a variety of flora, including 82 tree species and 152 plant species. It also supports various vines, smaller plants, and fungi. Land mullets can also be heard crawling on the rainforest floor.

The reserve is notable for its significant rainforest tree species, such as the Moreton Bay fig, strangler fig, long jack, black bean, white booyong, red bean, and bumpy ash. It also features other tree species like white bean, macadamia, yellow kamala, and the rare Baloghia marmorata. In the early 20th century, a giant Moreton Bay fig, believed to have