Eucalypt of the Year 2025: The Travel Edition

Help us find Australia's favourite holiday amongst the gum trees!

Each year, Eucalypt Australia and Remember The Wild hold a competition to decide which of the 850+ species of eucalypts deserves the title of Eucalypt of the Year.

This year, we're shaking things up and asking you to vote for your favourite holiday among the gum trees! There are ten iconic destinations to choose from.

Vote for your favourite before 20th March, then tell us how you voted on social media by tagging @EucalyptAus and using the hashtag #EucalyptoftheYear2025

We'll announce the 2025 Eucalypt of the Year on March 23rd, National Eucalypt Day.

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* 1. Please select your Eucalypt of the Year

Resilient River Reds of Ikara-Flinders Ranges
SA

Image: © Colbourne49/Getty Images via Canva.com
At the foot of Ikara/Flinders Ranges, some of the grandest River Red Gums in the country stand mighty and proud. Photographers from around the world visit to attempt to capture not only their image but their enduring spirit.

Kakadu’s Secrets of the Savanna
NT

Image: © Tourism Australia via Canva.com
Hiding in plain sight amongst the ancient rock art, gorges, waterfalls and crocodile-filled wetlands are vast and valuable tropical savanna woodlands. The eucalypts here are full of surprises, with some blooming orange, and others dropping their leaves in the dry season.

Alpine rainbows: Snow Gums in the High Country
ACT/NSW/Vic

Image: © Linda Baird
Snow Gums are synonymous with the High Country, their rainbow boughs tangled through countless fond memories, whether of snow play or summer strolls. Encrusted in turn with icicles or tiny white gum blossoms, they sparkle in every season.

Tropical Treasures of Magnetic Island
Qld

Image: Supplied by Ros Gleadow
Snorkel the reef, then climb Maggie’s granite hills for another perspective. It is here that red gums, ironbarks, stringybarks and bloodwoods vie for space as they scramble over boulders and rise above the lowlands. Enough to satisfy the island’s famous Koala colony, planted here in 2003 as insurance for the endangered Queensland population.

Ghosts of Central Australia
NT

Ghosts of Central Australia - © Cathy Cavallo/Remember The Wild

Image: © Cathy Cavallo/Remember The Wild
Red rock, white bark, blue sky - you can see it, can’t you. The ethereal beauty of the Ghost Gum, whether as twisted shrubs clinging gamely to steep gorges or stately trees rising above the dry and dusty plain. By moonlight and harsh sun, Ghost Gums exude a magic that draws travellers to return again and again.

Epic Elders of the Styx and Huon Valleys
Tas

Image: © Luke OBrien/Getty Images via Canva.com (this photo is of the Styx)
In the rainforests of southwest Tasmania, a combination of reliable, high rainfall and cool temperatures allow eucalypts to grow to epic proportions. Wandering amongst these tall wet forests we can find some of the tallest and biggest examples of three different species - Tasmanian Blue Gum (E. globulus), Mountain Ash (E. regnans) and Messmate (E. obliqua).

Bronzed Beauties of the Great Western Woodlands
WA

Image: © Michael Major/Getty Images via Canva.com
Home to around 30 per cent of Australia’s eucalypts, the Great Western Woodlands are the world's largest intact temperate woodlands and cover an area twice the size of Tasmania. The burnished bronze, copper and silver trunks of the region’s eucalypts, rise above a blue and silver understory. Campers and four-wheel drivers revel in vistas like no other at this shimmering scene.

Regents of the Otways: Mountain Ash
Vic

Image: © Linda Baird
The tallest flowering plant in the world - the Mountain Ash - dominates the Otway Ranges. Fly through the awe-inspiring canopy or wander amongst dense stands of these forest giants and spot the colossal stumps of their peers, which offer a glimpse of the pre-colonial forest.

Wondrous Forests of the Walpole Wilderness
WA

Image: © Elizabeth Edmonds
Fire-scarred Giant Tingle and Karri trees dwarf visitors to the southwest corner of Western Australia. On the fringe of these misty, majestic forests, endangered cockatoos call from the gnarled branches of ancient Jarrah - the trees upon which Perth was built.

Shades of Splendour: Eucalypt diversity in the Blue Mountains
NSW

Image: © Wild Blue Mountains
On Sydney’s doorstep, a blue haze hangs above a scenic playground cloaked in eucalypts of every description. Locals and tourists alike flock to hike, climb, kayak and fly amongst the greatest diversity of eucalypts in the world, with more than 100 eucalypt species calling the Greater Blue Mountains home.

Eucalypt of the Year 2025: The Travel Edition

Help us find Australia's favourite holiday amongst the gum trees!

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* 1. Please select your Eucalypt of the Year

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* 2. So that we can track the reach of our campaign, please select your home state.