Crime
The park is known by locals and the police to be a meeting point for drug deals and gay sex, due to its remoteness from residential areas and densely wooded forests, especially at night. In 2006, the male toilets were permanently closed in a bid to curb gay sex meetings. In the middle of 2008, the entire toilet block/picnic shelter was demolished in a further bid to stop the meetings. On 7 May 2010 at approximately 1am, a drug deal in the park lead to the stabbing murder of a 41 year old man from Dandenong.
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