Australia's Golden Outback 2024 Holiday Planner

WHEATBELT WAY 4 days | Sealed roads Shires on your journey: Dowerin, Trayning, Koorda, Mt Marshall, Mukinbudin, Westonia, Wyalkatchem Follow the bright skies and big horizons along the Northern Wheatbelt on a stargazing, bird watching road trip that delivers all the history and charm of this laidback region. Be sure to check on upcoming events and weave these cultural gems into your plans, too. The Wheatbelt Way takes you from cute country towns like Dowerin, Koorda and Beacon through to the Hood-Penn museum at historic Westonia and onto charming places like Bencubbin and Mukinbudin where you’ll find towering granite outcrops perfect for exploring. Highlights include Wyalkatchem CBH Museum, Nungarin Markets and Mangowine Homestead. Throughout this self-drive route you’ll be treated to stunning natural surrounds, sites of historical significance, and the laidback country atmosphere of the Wheatbelt. There are lots of campsites along the trail as well as walk trails and pretty picnic spots.

OTHER ROAD TRIPS TO EXPLORE Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail | 3 days (sealed road) Granite & Woodlands Discovery Trail | 2 days (unsealed road)

Wildflower Way | 3 days (sealed road) Wineries, Woodlands & Wheatbelt Trail | 3 days (sealed road) Northern Wheatbelt Wonders | 3 days (sealed road) Scan the QR code for more insights.

GOLDEN PIPELINE hERITaGE TRaIL Duration: 2 to 4 days Distance: One way Perth to Kalgoorlie 650km Road Conditions: Sealed roads with short stretches of maintained unsealed road to attractions. Accommodation: Bed & Breakfasts, Self-Contained Units, Farm Stays, Motels, Hotels, Caravan Parks and RV Friendly Camp Sites. An impressive engineering feat, C.Y O’Connor’s water pipeline was constructed over 100 years ago. See the 1968 earthquake memorial sites at Meckering or experience extensive pipeline history at Cunderdin’s No.3 Pump Station Museum. South of Tammin visit Charles Gardner Nature Reserve and on route see Tammin’s Hunt’s Well. Don’t miss the view from the Kellerberrin Hill lookout as the pipeline takes you past rock water catchments and springtime wildflowers. South of Merredin visit Totadgin Conservation Park and another of Hunt’s Wells then travel onto early water catchment history at Merredin Peak and Railway Dam. Two museums at Merredin showcase the military and railway history of the town. The site of the No.1 Rabbit Proof Fence is 5km east of Burracoppin. North of Carrabin is Westonia where the town’s building facades are preserved and its history encapsulated in the Hood-Penn Museum. Visit Southern Cross’s Yilgarn History Museum displays and mineral collection and 50km east Karalee Rock and Dam with an original timber and steel aqueduct. The Great Western Woodlands follows the Great Eastern Highway to RV Friendly sites onto Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. For more information visit wheatbelttourism.com | weroc.com.au | goldenpipeline.com.au

PIONEERS’ PaThWaY Duration: 2 to 5 days

SELF DRIVES CENTRAL WHEATBELT through the

Distance: 292km One Way Perth via Toodyay to Merredin Road Conditions: Sealed road with some unsealed access sections into nature reserves. Accommodation: Bed & Breakfasts, Self-Contained Units, Heritage Homestead, Motels, Hotels, Caravan Parks and RV Friendly Camp Sites. Traverse the Wheatbelt following the well-worn trail many prospectors once took on their way to the Yilgarn and Kalgoorlie Goldfields. This scenic journey wanders past expansive Wheatbelt farmland and through the small towns of Toodyay, Goomalling, Dowerin, Wyalkatchem, Nungarin, and Merredin providing a classic experience of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt heartland. Whether you’re travelling from Perth to the Goldfields, or from the west to east coast, this trip is a rewarding alternative to the Great Eastern Highway direct route, adding only 44 kilometres to the journey. It offers the remarkable view of wildflowers in colourful profusion during the season, invigorating leg-stretching nature walks, as well as numerous buildings and museums reflecting the unique rural historical significance of the region. pioneerspathway.com.au storytowns.com.au

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WAVE ROCK

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LAKE GRACE

WYALKATCHEM

KALGOORLIE-BOULDER

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DOWERIN

COOLGARDIE

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WESTONIA

GOOMALLING

MERREDIN

MECKERING

TAMMIN

SOUTHERN CROSS

TOODYAY

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MERREDIN

An International Civil Engineering Landmark

KELLERBERRIN

NORTHAM

CUNDERDIN

PERTH (Mundaring Weir)

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MERREDIN WA 6415 wheatbelttourism.com

CENTRAL WHEATBELT

Road to Dumbleyung

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