{"id":905250,"date":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905250\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","slug":"hanging-rock-reserve-closed-after-man-dies-in-fall-at-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905250\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Rock Reserve closed after man dies in fall at summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The death of a man at tourism spot Hanging Rock on Friday afternoon has prompted the closure of the reserve over the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said a man died after he fell while climbing onto a rock at the summit of the volcanic formation, which lies 75 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man fell just before 1pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Despite the efforts of several off-duty medical professionals at the scene, the man was unable to be revived and was declared deceased at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Hanging Rock Reserve was closed on Friday and will remain so on Saturday September 26, according to the Macedon Ranges Shire Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The council cited a medical incident as the reason for the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Grand Final Eve public holiday on Friday made the AFL Grand Final weekend a three-day break for many Victorians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a man at tourism spot Hanging Rock on Friday afternoon has prompted the closure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,107299,473268,473271,473270,473269,44,473272],"class_list":["post-905250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-grand-final-eve","tag-hanging-rock","tag-hanging-rock-death","tag-hanging-rock-fall","tag-hanging-rock-reserve","tag-news","tag-victoria-long-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}