Golden Pipeline

This section of the Heritage Trail offers plenty to see, from rock water catchments to pipeline pump stations, from a goldmine to the rabbit proof fence. You could easily spend half a day at Merredin Peak on the walk trail around the rock and military hospital drive trail, but the town of Merredin itself has plenty to do and see so as well to stay at least one night.

The school has closed and the hotel is now a private home, but Burracoppin was once a busy railhead where prospectors alighted from the train to walk, cycle or take the horse-drawn coach to the Goldfields. You can visit the reason for its importance as a stopping place – Burracoppin railway dam on the west of the town, north of Great Eastern Highway. Here you will see the ruins of something rather unique.

But this small settlement that mushroomed during the gold rush days has another claim to fame. Just outside of Burracoppin Great Eastern Highway passes the No 1 Rabbit Proof Fence which stretches from the south coast to the north west coast of Western Australia and there is a sign commemorating it.

At Carrabin with its tall silos is an information bay that will give you an insight into agriculture in the area.