Beech Forest

Beech Forest is a rural village in the Otway Ranges, western Victoria, 32 km south of Colac. It was named after the Myrtle beech (Nothafagus cunninghamii) found in rainforest habitats.

Beech Forest is situated on a ridge of the Otway Ranges, running from north-east to south-west. In the 1880s land was put aside for farm selections in the vicinity of Beech Forest, with the prospect of transport by railway for marketing of produce. The railway, a narrow gauge one, did not come until 1902.