According to the Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Hanging Rock attracted 100,000 annual visitors in 2017, with increased numbers expected.
In Beyond the Rock, a biography of Joan Lindsay, book editor Sandra Forbes is quoted as saying, "Did I think the story was true? We did talk about this. But the truth for Joan was different to the rest of us. She was never straightforward about it. I think I decided in the end that [Picnic at Hanging Rock] was a great work of the imagination. I see it as a book of place; a painterly book that captures the atmosphere of the Australian bush."
Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock, published her first literary work, Through Darkest Pondelayo, under a pseudonym. Her second semi-autobiographical novel, Time Without Clocks, was published almost 30 years later. Picnic at Hanging Rock was Lindsay's fourth literary work and her most well-known.
Patricia Lovell, executive producer of Peter Weir's film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) has said that she first optioned the screen rights for Lindsay's book for 100 Australian Dollars because it was all she could afford at the time.
Anne Carter edited Episodes 4, 5 and 6. She is known for her work on TV series Other People's Problems (2017), Newton's Law (2017), Winners & Losers (2011), The Time of Our Lives (2013) and Ocean Girl (1994), as well as for her work on the 2007 feature film The Jammed (2007).