Golden Pipeline

Boorabbin National park lies within the Great Western Woodlands, the largest remaining area of intact Mediterranean climate woodland left on Earth. It is also the healthiest.

The park has low-key campgrounds in places e.g. Boondi. In spring the wildflower displays are spectacular. The park is on other routes too e.g. it is traversed by the 4WD Holland Track.

Boorabbin is the Aboriginal name of a rock on the edge of the park which, despite the arid climate, boasts large diverse eucalypt woodlands. Apart from the magnificent trees, wildflowers of the Great Western Woodlands are worth seeing.

Located in Boorabbin National Park, about 100km east of Southern Cross, is a  memorial to three truck drivers who died tragically in a fierce wildfire in the area in  December 2007. The memorial is a short walk from a truck bay with toilets on the southern side of Great Eastern Highway.

The then Department of Environment and Conservation closed sections of Great Eastern because of the fire and traffic began to build up on this busy trucking route.

People were waiting at both sides of the road block in hot conditions, with few supplies, wondering when they would be allowed through.

On the 30th of December, after the fire had been burning for three days, the highway was reopened but a sudden wind change brought the fire back, trapping those who were unable to turn. After being allowed through the roadblock, drivers Trevor Murley, Lewis Bedford, and Robert Taylor perished  in their trucks, trapped by great walls of flame in Boorabbin.

Three years on, the Department of Environment and Conservation, in consultation with the families of the three men, built a permanent memorial consisting of a granite monument and an information shelter the memorial was dedicated at a service for family and friends on the anniversary of their deaths, 30 December 2010.

Boorabbin National Park has other rest areas such as Boorabbin (Koorarawalyee) rest area and Yerdani Well Rest Area.