Koonwarra Holiday Park

Koonwarra Holiday Park sits on The Esplanade at Lakes Entrance, close to the esplanade bridge that everyone in town uses, a budget park for families and fishers who want the Gippsland Lakes at walking distance without waterfront prices. Guest feedback circles the same points: clean cabins, comfortable beds, camp kitchens, a games room and friendly management, which is the profile of a park that wins on basics rather than gimmicks.

Lakes Entrance itself serves the boating, fishing and beach crowd, and this park puts you in the middle of it at cabin and site rates that leave room in the budget.

Dogs at the park

Per the park's own pet policy, pets are allowed on powered sites during the quiet months of the year or at the manager's discretion, and the standing advice is to ask at the time of booking. That is a seasonal arrangement rather than an all year guarantee, so the dog friendly window is the quiet months and the flexibility sits with the manager.

Cabins are not part of the pet arrangement here, so travelling with a dog means bringing the van or tent and timing the trip for the off peak stretch of the calendar.

The park is flat and open, which regulars read two ways: easy for older dogs, short on natural shade, so a site near the mature trees along the perimeter beats the middle of the grounds on a warm Gippsland afternoon. Off the park, the fenced enclosures at Brackenbush Unleashed about ten minutes out are where local dogs go for a proper free run.

While you're out there

The esplanade, the footbridge over the entrance channel and the Ninety Mile Beach side of town are all walkable from the park, and the lake shore paths make easy on lead morning walks. For a change of scene, Stratford Caravan Park up the Avon River works as a inland base, and BIG4 Sale is the bigger park option near the Gippsland highway route.

More dog friendly stays in Victoria are listed across Gippsland and the rest of the state.