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 a 1889 - 90 expedition. Great views of the district are available from this piont. The lee of the peak was the site of the early prospectors camps with their associated wells. The original Merredin townsite was surveyed to the north of this site.
Nearby, to the east, is the former location of the Australian General Army Hospital relocated from near Tobruk in 1942.
Merredin Peak is a naturally occuring ourcrop of granites that are about 2 700 million years old. The Peak is set in an area of woodland know locally as Merredin's National Forest. This 1200 hectares of woodland and sand plain country was originally set aside as a firewood reserve for the town residents. Wildflower displays occur in this area July to October.
Please call into the Merredin District Visitor Centre, Barrack Street for a map of the trail.
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