Opened in 1998, Western Australia's award-winning, world class 1000 kilometre walk trail stretches from The Perth Hills to Albany through seven rural communities and traversing the most beautiful natural areas south of Perth.
For more information, visit the Bibbulmun Track page.
A picturesque walk along Nanga Brook, through the old Nanga Mill and Townsite areas.
Where: Starts at either Nanga Mill or the southern end of Nanga Townsite and returns walkers back to their start point along the same route.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Distance: 3.8 km
Time to complete: 2 hours
Markers: Red hiker symbol on yellow triangle.
*Maps can be obtained from the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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A gentle winding circuit providing views over the Murray River and valley.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Where: Starts at the upper car park at Island Pool Day use area
Distance: 2.0 km
Time to complete: 1 hour
Markers: Green hiker symbol on white triangle.
*Maps can be obtained from the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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An enjoyable walk, taking you through beautiful jarrah forest with river and valley views along the way.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Where: Starts at Nanga Mill running south along North Junction formation.
Distance: 18km
Time to complete: 6-8 hours
Markers: Black hiker symbol on yellow triangle.
*Maps can be obtained from the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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An excellent opportunity to see beautiful scenery, heritage and cultural locations, the Murray River, and to view native flora and fauna of the area.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Where: Three starting points at various sections along the walk circuit: 1. The railway crossing in Dwellingup; 2. Scarp Pool; and 3. Nanga Mill close to the trout ladder and one-lane bridge over Nanga Brook on Murray Valley Road.
Distance: 46km
Time to complete: 3 days
Markers: Green hiker symbol on yellow triangle.
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- The trail leaves from the old Marrinup Townsite, established in the 1880’s to harvest jarrah. Timber resources declined and operations moved to Dwellingup, with the remainder of the town being destroyed in the 1961 Bush Fire.
- Large Blackbutt trees can be seen growing in the fertile soil of the creek lines.
- The wooden sleepers of the old tramway tracks built for hauling jarrah logs can still be seen in places, and a creaky bridge crosses a creek that flows most of the year.
- The entrance to the POW Campsite has information panels displaying photographs of camp life.
- In the Commanding Officer’s area, prisoners were aloud to build and tend flower gardens; old beds picked out in gravel stones are still visible today.
- The German compound area has labelled foundations; the German prisoners were used as woodcutters, supplying firewood from the surrounding jarrah forest to Perth. Some 2,500 tonnes a week.
- The Italian compound was basically a transit area for workers on their way to farms or rural control centers.
- The area surrounding the camp and some of the sleeping hut area has been mined for bauxite. This area has since been landscaped and replanted. All the other forest around the POW Camp is the native jarrah forest and redgum, which is mostly re-growth after the onslaught of the Marrinup firewood cutters.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Where: Starts at the Marrinup townsite.
Distance: 4.5km
Time to complete: 2 hours
*Maps can be obtained from the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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Let the past come alive as you visit the places where the early mill workers and families lived and worked in and around the Dwellingup townsite.
You will see the mill, which has been on this site since 1910, the boarding house, which was originally located at Banksiadale, and was the mill managers home.
Further on you will pass by the Dwellingup Cemetery which possibly dates from 1909, though is impossible to validate as all records, including burial records prior to 1961 were destroyed in the 1961 Bush Fire.
You will also see some of the oldest homes in Dwellingup in Solya Crescent and the RSL which was originally the Marrinup School that opened on 12 June 1911.
The Heritage Garden which is ablaze with colour and perfume in spring from the many rose bushes planted by Mick French, whose stood on this site from the early 1900’s.
Address: Marrinup Street, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1108
Email: dhvic@murray.wa.gov.au
Website: www.murray.wa.gov.au/dwellingupvisitorcentre
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30 Saturday and Sunday 10am to 3pm
Where: Starts at the Dwellingup Visitor Centre.
Distance: 3.9km
Time to complete: 1 hours
*Map available at the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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The Holyoake Hike will take you along part of the Bibbulmun Track, through working orchards to the Holyoake townsite. Holyoake was originally set up the South West Timber Hewers Cooperative Society, with all members and townsite shareholders and equal.
They were known as the ‘Teddy Bears’ after a chance meeting with US President Teddy Roosevelt in Sth Africa by Mill Manager Herbert Jackman, who was there getting orders for the Hewers jarrah railway sleepers.
You will see the remains of the mill, cottages and the school site. Following the trail you will pass what was once the Holyoake sports oval, it is gravel today and was gravel then, hope they had lots of band-aids.
Address: Marrinup Street, Dwellingup
Phone: +61 8 9538 1108
Email: dhvic@murray.wa.gov.au
Website: www.murray.wa.gov.au/dwellingupvisitorcentre
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30 Saturday and Sunday 10am to 3pmWhere: Starts at the Dwellingup Visitor Centre.
Distance: 6.5km
Time to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
*Map available at the Dwellingup Visitor Centre
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Meander through a variety of vegetation, taking you along Marrinup Brook to the falls, returning on the opposite bank.
Address: Banksiadale Rd, Dwellingup
Phone: 08 9538 1078
Email: dwell.dis@calm.wa.gov.au
Website: www.naturebase.net
Opening Times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30
Where: Starts at carpark on Greys Rd at trail head.
Distance: 1.5 km
Time to complete: 45 minutes
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