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Northern Goldfields Western Australia Travel Planner The Real Outback. Open Spaces. History. Menzies Leonora Agnew Sandstone Leinster Wiluna Kookynie Laverton Warburton GUNBARREL HIGHWAY TO CANNING WARBURTON STOCK ROUTE TO GUNBARREL (4WD) HIGHWAY (4WD) Unsealed road not advised for WILUNA 2WD vehicles GOLDFIELDS HIGHWAYi to Warburton, TJUKAYIRLA ROADHOUSE Warakurna, GREAT 5 Uluru, Alice Springs to Geraldton, VICTORIA Meekatharra, North West, Perth DESERT i OUTBACK WAY (GREAT CENTRAL ROAD) SANDSTONE LEINSTER GOLDFIELDS COSMO NEWBERRY COMMUNITY AGNEW OLD AGNEW ROAD HIGHWAY ANNE BEADELL HIGHWAY 3 LAVERTON LEONORA SYMBOLS LEGEND i 2 MT MARGARET GWALIA Accommodationi & camping Meals available KOOKYNIE i 4 Lake Ballard i 1 i Fuel location MENZIES Lake Ballard Just a 51km drive from Menzies, this i Airport (regular services) lake features 51 sculptures by the i to Kalgoorlie, Lake Ballard worldi renowned sculptor Antony Coolgardie, Gormley, laser scanned from residents Norseman, 1 Visitor centre Esperance i of the Menzies township. GOLDFIELDS HIGHWAY Accredited information centre i i Legend ACCOMMOD A TION RV Friendly town CA MPING i i KALGOORLIE i ME A LS A V A IL A BLE BOULDER FUEL LOC A TION Great Beyond Explorers RFDS Airstrip Historic Gwalia Hall of Fame Niagara Dam Tjukayirla AIRPORT (REGUL A R SERVICES ) 2 3 4 5 GREAT i VISITOR CENTRE EASTERN HWY ACCREDITED IN F O . CENTRE RV F RIENDLY TOWN SE A LED RO A D UNSE A LED RO A D FOUR WHEEL DRIVE Contents Distance Table History, Culture and Adventure ...................................... 03 Towns Distance Road Surface Time Leonora Loop Trails ........................................................ 05 Kalgoorlie – Menzies 132 Sealed 1hr 15m Menzies – Leonora 105 Sealed 1hr 05m Adventure Self-Drive Touring ......................................... 06 Menzies – Lake Ballard 51 Unsealed 0hr 45m Towns and Unique Places .............................................. 08 Menzies – Sandstone 295 Unsealed 3hr 30m Where to Stay ................................................................ 14 Menzies – Kookynie 68 Sealed 0hr 45m Kookynie – Laverton 158 Unsealed 2hr Real Outback Events ...................................................... 18 Kookynie – Laverton 153 Part Sealed 1hr 30m Dining In and Out ........................................................... 18 Leonora – Kookynie 89 Part Sealed 1hr 30m Travelling Safely ............................................................. 19 Leonora – Leinster 131 Sealed 1hr 20m Fuel Services .................................................................. 19 Leinster – Wiluna 170 Sealed 1hr 35m Leinster – Agnew 28 Sealed 0hr 20m National Parks................................................................. 20 Leinster – Sandstone 151 Sealed 1hr 30m Contact Us...................................................................... 20 Agnew – Sandstone 134 Sealed 1hr 30m Leonora – Laverton 127 Sealed 1hr 15m Cover Image – Gwalia Ghost Town Laverton – Tjukayirla 315 Unsealed 3hr 30m Bottom Left – Landscape near Wiluna Tjukayirla – Warburton 250 Unsealed 3hr 00m Bottom Right – Lake Ballard, Menzies Warburton – Warakurna 220 Unsealed 2hr 30m PAGE 2 Goldfields History Sunrise at Gwalia Mt Morgans, near Laverton Aboriginal Art Centre, Warburton Art and Culture Terraces near Leonora PAGE 3 Adventure Wiluna Menzies Hotel Poison Creek pool near Agnew Eagles seen easily near Leonora and Laverton Children at play Spinifex near Sandstone PAGE 4 Kookynie Grand Hotel London Bridge, Sandstone Gwalia Museum, Leonora Rest in Peace “Midland” woodline steam engine Real Australian Outback Best of the West Self-Drive Touring See WA’s great touring gems in one round trip all on sealed roads. N Wiluna The “Best of the West” touring route links Perth with the Northern Goldfields travelling through Agnew Geraldton, on through Sandstone, Leonora and Sandstone Lake Ballard. Leonora Gwalia Then back via Kalgoorlie, Esperance and on Laverton through the South West. Lake Ballard Geraldton Menzies Kalgoorlie Sandstone Gwalia Perth Esperance South West Laverton Lake Ballard Albany PAGE 5 Adventure Self-Drive Touring Outback Way Between Warburton and the Northern greatest explorers. Famous historical Territory border is spectacular outback precincts include the ghost town of Gwalia (Laverton – Warburton – Central scenery, which very few travellers have an near Leonora, which features the house Australia – Queensland) opportunity to experience. commissioned by Herbert Hoover, later to be the 31st President of the United Australia’s longest shortcut. For more detailed information on Outback States. Popular with European tourists is Way highlights check out A real Australian adventure, the Outback a visit to Lake Ballard, a remote salt lake http://www.outbackway.org.au Way (known formerly as the Outback near Menzies boasting an installation of 51 Highway) travels through the heart of statues created by world-renowned British Australia via the Northern Goldfields. It links Golden Quest sculptor Antony Gormley. Perth and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia To learn more about the trail visit with Ayers Rock (Uluru) and Alice Springs in Discovery Trail www.goldenquesttrail.com the Northern Territory then continues on to The Golden Quest Discovery Trail is a Winton in Queensland. 965km self-drive adventure through Western Golden Quest Discovery Trail This route is an exciting adventure beginning Australia’s Goldfields region, running WINDARRA from Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Coolgardie MURRIN LAVERTON in Laverton – a town rich in Goldfields history MURRIN HAWKS NEST LEONORA and home to the must see Great Beyond to Leonora and Laverton via Menzies and GRANITE CREEK MT MORGANS Kookynie. The trail passes many attractions GWALIA OLD RAIL Explorers Hall of Fame and an abundance of COPPERFIELD BRIDGES native wildlife. that are well worth stopping at including KOOKYNIE the Great Beyond Explorers Hall of Fame in SNAKE HILL NIAGARA DAM When you reach Tjukayirla Roadhouse Laverton. In fact, 25 sites of significance can beware of aircraft, which could be landing be visited along the way with interpretive MENZIES on the Royal Flying Doctor Service airstrip ULARRING signage helping visitors discover each one. GOONGARRIE that was built as part of the Outback Way. DAVYHURST SIBERIA At Warburton you can experience Aboriginal The complete route can take up to four ORA BANDA ROWLES LAGOON culture at the Tjulyuru Civic Centre. Here you days to complete, depending on where BROAD ARROW can meet local Ngaanyatjarra people and you choose to go, and crosses the KUNUNALLING KALGOORLIE-BOULDER view wonderful Aboriginal art. pioneering paths of some of Australia’s COOLGARDIE Outback Way through Northern Goldfields Places of interest: Laverton – Northern Territory Border To Yulara, 1 Laverton 7 White Cross 11 Desert Breakaway & Gnamma Hole Alice Springs INTERPRETIVE PANEL. INTERPRETIVE PANEL. Prom- INTERPRETIVE PANEL. 17 2 Deba Gnamma hole inent marker, south of road, on South side of road. ridge. Gnamma holes adjacent. 12 Warburton Roadhouse INTERPRETIVE PANEL. 15 16 North side of the road in the 8 Tjukayirla Roadhouse INTERPRETIVE PANEL. Adam Ranges. INTERPRETIVE PANEL. 14 Warakurna 3 Parking Bay 9 Kurrajong Sentinel South side of road, shaded. INTERPRETIVE PANEL. Distinct- 13 13 Yarla Kutjara Campground 4 Cosmo Newberry ive tree on south side of road. Warburton Unleaded (opal) petrol & diesel. 10 Parking Bay & Paradise Camp 12 14 Tjukurlapini Rock Hole M–F 10–12am & 3–5pm. Camping, views & gnamma hole INTERPRETIVE PANEL. Sat 10am–12pm. along ridge north of parking area. 15 Warakurna Roadhouse Parking bay north of road. 5 Parking Bay – The Pines 11 INTERPRETIVE PANEL. Tours, 10 INTERPRETIVE PANEL. 9 view weather balloons 8.30am Shaded area, south of road. No Tjukayirla 8 and 2.30pm (winter SA time). signs, no facilities. Bookings (08) 8956 7358. 6 Parking Bay 16 Len Beadell Plaque South side of road, 2-3 shaded 7 INTERPRETIVE PANEL. 65km sites. No facilities. 6 4 5 east of Warakurna / 35km west 3 of Docker River. Plaque is in a tall Ghost Gum on the road side. 2 17 Kaltukatjara Campground 1 Laverton $5 per person. Water, toilets, fire rings, shade & viewing platform. Leonora A great campsite! PAGE 6 Adventure Self-Drive Touring Gunbarrel Highway Anne Beadell Highway Canning Stock Route (Wiluna – Yulara in Central Australia) (Laverton – Coober Pedy) (Wiluna – Halls Creek) The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated The Anne Beadell Highway branches off The Canning Stock Route (CSR), which 1400km desert track that stretches from from the Outback Way at Laverton in stretches from Wiluna to Halls Creek in the Wiluna (via Jackie Junction and Docker River) Western Australia and stretches 1350km state’s far North West, is one of the most north of the Outback Way to Yulara near across the Great Victoria Desert into remote and isolated 4WD tracks in the world Ayers Rock, which can also be accessed Coober Pedy in South Australia. Surveyed and holds an appeal as the ‘last frontier’. The from Warburton. and graded some 50 years ago by famous route covers a distance of 2000km, most of surveyor, Len Beadell, it is not a sealed road which is difficult to travel and requires great In general, wash-aways, heavy corrugations, and conditions along it can be treacherous. care and preparation. stone, sand, long grasses and flood plains are all typical elements of the drive, however The journey features rarely used tracks that The northern section of the route ends in unlike the Anne Beadell Highway, the track are often narrow, twisted