Kep Track

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Difficulty: Moderate
Length: 49 miles / 79 km
Duration: Full day

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Overview: This is a long diatance multi trail that follows the Kalgoorlie pipeline from Mundaring Weir to Northam, 75km further east.

The track is wide, well graded and there are no steep hills, which make it suitable for walkers, offroad cyclists and horse riders alike.

The whole trail is an all day, or longer, undertaking but smaller sections can be tackled individually. The trail can be split into:

Weir to Mundaring
Mundaring to Sawyers
Sawyers to Mount Helena
Mount Helena to Chidlow
Chidlow to Wooroloo
Wooroloo to Wundowie
Wundowie to Bakers Hill
Bakers Hill to Clackline
Clackline to West Northam tanks
West Northam tanks to Northam

There are good public transport links to Mundaring and Northam at the finish, including the scenic Avonlink and Prospector trains as well as a coach service which also takes bicycles (must be booked ahead).

Mobile phone reception:
If using the free version of the EveryTrail app you will need continuous mobile coverage. Along the Kep Track you will have excellent Telstra reception and ok to poor Optus and Vodaphone reception.

Tips: - Take the scenic Avonlink or Prospector train along the Avon valley to Northam and cycle back
- Stop regularly at the many towns that the trail passes through for refreshments
- Cool off at the nearby Lake Leshenaultia (Chidlow)

Points of Interest

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Mundaring Weir

Start/end of the Kep Track, great views, pub and the Number 1 Pump Station Museum where you can learn more about the brilliant engineer behind the project, C.Y. O’Connor, who endured much public criticism and tragically took his own life.

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Fred Jacoby Park, Mundaring

Enjoy the sculptures, picnic on the lawns or pop into adjacent Mundaring where there are plenty of shops and cafes

Harry at start of munda bindi in Mundaring Photo

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Sawyers Valley

Art deco hotel, servo and a couple of shope/cafes

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Mount Helena

The railyard precinct in the centre of Mt Helena has been converted into a pleasant park and you can take some time out here. The tavern is on one side and on the other is a general store which is open on a Sunday.

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Chidlow

A monument in the shape of a well, commemorating the town’s beginnings, can be seen across the road from the Kep Track on the site of the old school. The other type of watering-hole is represented in the town. Pop inside Chidlow Tavern to see photographs relating to the goldfields pipeline.

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Wooroloo

Small town on the trail

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Clackline

Just east of Clackline, at the Spencers Brook Road corner, is a pleasant picnic spot with toilets and an unusual monument. A stone lion lies on top of the monument erected in celebration of the centenary of British colonization.

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