Muir Highway
Muir Highway | |
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| Muir Highway at Rocky Gully | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 161 km (100 mi) |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 102 |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |  South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western Australia |
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| East end |  Albany Highway (State Route 30), Mount Barker, Western Australia |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Lake Muir, Rocky Gully |
| Highway system | |
Muir Highway,[1] also called Muirs Highway, is a Western Australian highway linking Manjimup and Mount Barker, which is on the Albany Highway. It is signed as State Route 102[2] and is 161 kilometres (100 mi) long. It provides a shorter distance between the cities of Bunbury and Albany. It is a lowly populated highway passing mostly through karri and jarrah with occassional areas of farmland.
One village, Rocky Gully lies on the highway, although it also passes through the localities of Dingup, Nyamup, Lake Muir, Strachan and Murtinup.
It is primarily used as a freight route for plantation timber trucks and interstate long vehicles servicing the horticultural areas of the South West. The road is a two way, single carriageway bitumen surfaced highway.[3]
Muir Highway was named after brothers Thomas and John Muir, the first European settlers in the Warren district, who settled at Deeside in 1852 and built a rush hut there in 1856.[4]
Major intersections
[edit]| LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Manjimup | Manjimup | 0 | 0.0 | South Western Highway (National Route 1) – Bunbury, Bridgetown, Walpole, Albany | Western terminus at roundabout. Continues west as Pritchard Street |
| Plantagenet | Rocky Gully | 95 | 59 | Rocky Gully–Frankland Road – Frankland River, Kojonup | |
| Mount Barker | 149 | 93 | Denmark-Mount Barker Road – Denbarker, Denmark | ||
| 161 | 100 | Albany Highway (State Route 30) – Perth, Kojonup, Cranbrook, Albany | Eastern terminus at roundabout. Continues east as Woogenellup Road | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN STATE ROUTES 2024" (PDF). Main Roads WA. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
- ^ South West Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Paul Rands. "Muirs Highway (State Route 102)". Road Photos & Information: Western Australia. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ Shire of Manjimup (1 January 2017). "Deeside Homestead Group". inHerit. Perth, WA: Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
