Rangers attended the site on Monday to find alcohol bottles and cans, food packaging, syringes and other waste strewn around the camping ground. 

A Forest Fire Management Victoria crew were tasked with cleaning up the refuse and filled seven trailers with rubbish. 

Forest Fire Management Victoria Midlands District Manager, Jasmine Filmer said she was offended by the state the site was left in and the lack of respect shown by those who were there.

“This behaviour not only has a negative effect for fellow holiday-makers but also for those left with the job of cleaning up after an obviously wild weekend,” he said. 

“It has taken an entire work day for a four-person crew to clean up the rubbish left at the site, which included general waste, bits of old carpet and syringes.”

As well as the rubbish, the free facilities at the camp site were damaged with crews having to return to perform repairs. 

“We have never seen so much rubbish left behind after a long weekend at any campsite in the Midlands District, despite our repeated efforts to encourage campers to pack up their rubbish and take it home,” Ms Filmer said. 

“In addition, a Variable Message Sign located at the entry to the park showing important safety messaging for camp users leading into an extremely hot weekend, was deliberately vandalised, a serious criminal offence.”

The clean-up crews were not impressed with having to spend their time cleaning up after others. 

“It is an affront to our crews to have to clean up and fix up after willful and lazy revelers,” Ms Filmer said. 

“The outcome of such disrespect is that our crew then becomes unavailable for more important forestry and fuel management activities.

“It is visually offensive, can be dangerous to humans and wildlife, and is damaging to the environment.”