Pretty spots for weekend walks
Within a couple of hours of Perth
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Northern Terminus to Hewett's Hill Campsite (return)
- 🚗 30 min
- 🚶🏽♀️ 3 hr to hut
- 🛌🏾 3-wall hut
- 🚶🏽♀️ 3 hr to carpark?
- 🚗 30 min
This walk is less exciting, and honestly less pretty. However, I want to walk the whole track piece by piece so this is where I start! Basically (& to avoid complex planning/coordination) I'm planning to:
- start at the 'Northern Terminus' (start of the track)
- hike approx 10km (3 hrs? 3.5 hrs?) to Hewett's Hill Campsite
- (stopping for afternoon tea/lunch at the Paulls Valley Road Camel Farm!)
- stay overnight at Hewett's Hill Campsite, and
- hike back to the Kalamunda carpark (Northern Terminus)
- (possibly getting tea from the Camel Farm on the way home...)
I really want this trip to build up confidence. (However, I'm really scared of ticks as there were enormous elephant ticks (click here to watch the TICK VIDEO!) last time I was at Hewett's Hill Campsite! Which was many years ago...)
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South Ledge to Hewett's Hill Campsite (return)
- 🚗 30 min
- 🚶🏽♀️ 3 hr to hut?
- 🛌🏾 3-wall hut
- 🚶🏽♀️ 3 hr to carpark?
- 🚗 30 min
Instructions (very broken up):- Decide whether you want a 6.6km walk option on the second day, or a 5.4km walk option. If you want the 6.6km option,
- Both cars drive to South Ledge Picnic Area (which doesn't come up in Google maps, but looks like Golden View Lookout) (6.6km walk option on second day) OR carpark on south side of Mundaring Weir (5.4km walk option on second day). One car is going to stay parked there.
- If someone maybe needs to leave early on the second day, use their car to drive to Perth Hills Discovery Centre (I have called this 'carpark 2')
- Walk east from Perth Hills Discovery Centre, to Ball Creek Campsite (3.0km - allow )
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Mundaring Weir to Ball Creek Campsite (return)
- 🚗 30 min Perth to carpark 1,2
- 🚶🏽♀️ 30 min to hut
- 🛌🏾 3-wall hut
- 🚶🏽♀️ 1 hr to carpark 2
- 🚗 30 min carpark 1,2 to Perth
This was a beautiful hut. We came here over Easter 2022, and (possibly because it was so close to the Hills Forest Activity Centre?), there was a whole host of people. The hut was full: a mother and her daughter, a man, and me and my two friends were split across the 4 beds. Outside there was a young man (very handsome) who had adventured a lot doing long walks in Chile, and two incredible young women who would have been younger than 21 who had dehydrated their own food and were hiking the whole track! We were so impressed. The moonrise was stunning - it was so bright, and the biggest moon I've ever seen. Such an inspiring trip.
Photos of this part of the track! - 🚗 1 hr 40 min
- 🚶🏽♀️ 2 car: 2 hr
1 car: 4 hr - 🏕️ tent $
- 🚶🏽♀️ 6 hr
- 🚗 1 hr 40 min
Dwellingup camp & 2 walks
Walk on Day 1: Chuditch Walk Trail, Lane Poole Reserve (shown above).
Campsite: any campsite at Lane Poole Reserve (will need booking). Baden Powell Campground (shown above) is a good one.
Walk 2: King Jarrah Walk Trail (shown above).