Fine weather over the Queens Birthday long weekend has brought out the crowds at Moorabool’s State Parks with five infringement notices handed out to drivers at MacKenzies Flat.

Bacchus Marsh Police said hundreds of cars were parked outside the park boundary along the Lerderderg River Road – some with the potential to obstruct emergency vehicles such as ambulances.

It’s the third weekend in the last month that hundreds of cars have flooded the most popular visitor areas in the Lerderderg and Werribee Gorge state parks.

Parks Victoria says both parks have chalked up some of their biggest visitor numbers in living memory as the pandemic eases.

Similar issues have been recorded at Mt Macedon, Trentham Falls and the You Yangs.

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Image: Visitors park hundreds of metres from the entrance to the Lerderderg SP on May 17

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