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Length: 12km
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Duration: 3hrs
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Grade: 3
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Style: Return
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Start: Gloucester Tree
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End: Gloucester Tree
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Location: Gloucester National Park
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Closest Town:
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Distance from CBD: 330km
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State: WA
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Latitude: -34.44759535
Longitude: 116.0567972
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Gloucester Tree to Cascades Walk is a 12km, grade 3 Return hike located in Gloucester National Park Western Australia. The hike should take approximately 3hrs to complete.
Summary
This 12 kilometre return walk starts from the worlds tallest climbable tree – the Gloucester Tree and finishes at the Cascades, a series of babbling rapids along Lefroy Brook. It uses the Bibbulmun Track.
Fill your water flask, don a hat or raincoat (depending on the season) and set off on a half day adventure along a section of the Bibbulmun Track. The track passes through the Gloucester National Park which is a great example of the closed forest ecosytem that extends throughout the Southern Forest region. You start on the 10km Gloucester Route, but when you reach the bitumen road, turn right, cross over the twin bridges, and then right again, following the trail markers back into the forest. From there, you will follow the gurgling East Brook, through the valley. Listen for the stirrings of many different creatures for them, the winding brook is a liquid lifeline. Continue through the forest, following the old railway earthworks. This too, was once a lifeline with heavy logs hauled from the forest on the railway to the Pemberton mill. Listen carefully, you can hear the tram’s horn and watch out the tourist trams using the railway line. With time the tell tale scar of the track and the timber harvest on adjacent hillsides is gradually fading as the forest continues its silent regrowth. Timber remains a major industry for Pemberton, as you can see when you look across the town with its weatherboaRoad houses and prominent timber mill. Equally important now, is tourism. Both rely on the same commodity – towering karri forest, now and in the future. Both can continue to exist together, as they do today. Continue to follow the trail markers until you reach the Cascades. Take care! Listen and look out for log trucks when crossing roads.
Notes
Start Point: Gloucester National Park at the Gloucester Tree. Pemberton is 330km (4 hours) south of Perth.
End Point: Gloucester National Park at the Gloucester Tree
Region: Gloucester National Park, South West
For more information, a location map and GPS file please visit Trails WA.
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