Coolgardie Attractions - Western Australia
Experience local attractions in Coolgardie such as museums, vineyards, wineries, art galleries, parks and gardens on your Western Australia holiday. Be sure to visit attractions in neighbouring towns to appreciate all Goldfields region has to offer.
Bayleys Reward Fly Flat
Bayleys Reward Fly Flat is the site where gold was first discovered in Coolgardie in the late 1800s by Arthur Bayley and William Ford. Look out over the vast countryside and imagine the harsh climate and environment that welcomed numerous hopefuls wh ...
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Ben Priors Open Air Museum
If you are looking for a museum with a difference whilst in Coolgardie, visit Ben Prior’s Open Air Museum. Featuring a collection of machinery collected by the museum’s namesake, you will gain an appreciation of the life lead by the early settler ...
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Burra Rocks Nature Reserve
Burra Rocks Nature Reserve is located 55 kilometres south of Coolgardie. The Reserve is a popular day trip offering visitors a great picnic spot with a unique backdrop of granite rock which is surrounded by regrowth woodland. There is also a dam an ...
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Cave Hill Reserve
For a taste of the Aussie outback and goldfields adventure head to Cave Hill Reserve south of Coolgardie. Accessible only by four wheel drive, Cave Hill is known for its spectacular granite outcrop and cave formation. It’s one of the biggest and h ...
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Coolgardie Cemetery
Reflect on the lives and hardships encountered during the gold rush years with a visit to the Coolgardie Cemetery. Commissioned in 1894, it has over 3,000 graves. Over a quarter of these contain a child under the age of five. Typhoid took hold of the ...
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Gnarlbine Rock
Only 30 kilometres south of Coolgardie, Gnarlbine Rock - Hunts Well water catchment area, played an important part in the opening of the Goldfields as it was one of the few watering points which was known to the early prospectors. Suitable for picnic ...
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Golden Quest Discovery Trail
The Golden Quest Discovery Drive Trail runs 965 kilometres through Western Australia’s Goldfields from Coolgardie through to Laverton. This moderate Top Trail is a true adventure drive which commences approximately seven hours drive east of Perth a ...
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Goldfields Exhibition Museum
The Goldfields Exhibition Museum is housed in the grand historic two storey former Wardens Court Building, which was erected in 1898. Wander through each of the rooms to view a range of fascinating displays including Aboriginal artefacts, photographs ...
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Historical Markers
A series of historical markers have been placed at various intervals within the township giving a well documented account of Coolgardie's history. Each group of markers described the immediate site as it was when Coolgardie was the capital of the Gol ...
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Lions Bicentennial Lookout
The Lions Bicentennial Lookout in Coolgardie is the perfect lookout to view the landscape Bayley and Ford first saw as they rode in from the Gnarlbine Soak. The Bayley's Reware Gold Mine headframe provides the perfect lookout and overlooks the Fly Fl ...
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No 8 Pumping Station Coolgardie
Perhaps the most unusual, and certainly one of the most evocative properties invested in the National Trust is the old Number Eight steam operated pumping station at Dedari, 28 kilometres south of Coolgardie. For 66 years this was a vital link in C.Y ...
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Old Coolgardie Gaol
Take the opportunity to visit the Old Coolgardie Gaol for an insightful look at how prisoners were incarcerated in the late 1800s. Walk through the cells and imagine the hardships experienced by the early settlers inhabiting the prison during the gol ...
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Old Pioneer Cemetery Coolgardie
A visit to the Old Pioneer Cemetery in Coolgardie will give you an appreciation of the hardships experienced by the gold mining opportunists who flocked to the goldrush town in the 1890s. This historic site became the final resting place of a signifi ...
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Pharmacy Museum
The Pharmacy Museum in Coolgardie houses an extensive pharmaceutical collection in the Old Coolgardie Drill Hall. Regarded as one of the best pharmaceutical displays in Australia, you will get a detailed insight into the medicinal treatments dispense ...
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Railway Station Museum
An extensive collection of railway memorabilia can be found at the Old Coolgardie Railway Station including an old steam locomotive and the carriages that brought mining hopefuls to the goldfields. Discover the significance of the arrival of this rai ...
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Rowles Lagoon
Rowles Lagoon is located approximately sixty kilometres north of Coolgardie, and is a semi-permanent fresh water lake two kilometres across. It’s popular with day-trippers, campers and water sport enthusiasts and is the only Goldfields lake with a ...
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The Gaol Tree
The Gaol Tree is located in Hunt Street, over the old railway bridge. Before any gaols were built in Coolgardie, prisoners were chained to the tree to await their trial. It is an indicator as to the speed with which this wild town started. Replica le ...
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Victoria Rock Nature Reserve
Victoria Rock Nature Reserve is home to many native animals including emus, echidna's, ornate dragons and carpet pythons. The woodland surrounding the Victoria Rock was once cleared by the early settlers and the regrowth consists of salmon gum, gimle ...
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Warden Finnertys House
Warden Finnerty's House in Coolgardie is a beautiful historic home which has been faithfully restored to its original 1895 grandeur. Commonly known as ‘The Residency’, it is an excellent early example of clever design being used to protect its in ...
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