Merredin Peak Trail
The Merredin Peak Trail is a 30 to 75 minute walking trail to the summit of Merredin Peak. The walk is a site on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail, a driving trail from Mundaring to Kalgoorlie.
In an imaginative and efficient engineering feat in 1893, Merredin Peak was surrounded by a rock wall and a network of channels that directed water run off into a nearby dam for use by steam engines on the Perth to Kalgoorlie railway line. The 100 metre channel that connected the dam with the Peak was made from rock taken from the Peak.
The Trail includes a quarry site used to obtain material for the dam, and a cairn of stones placed on the peak by Assistant Surveyor King during an 1889 to 1890 expedition. Great views of the district are available from this point. The lee of the peak was the site of the early prospector’s camps with their associated wells. The original Merredin town site was surveyed to the north of this site.
Nearby, to the east, is the former location of the Australian General Army Hospital.
Please call into the Merredin District Visitor Centre, Barrack Street for a map of the trail.
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