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Muirs Highway

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Type
  
Highway

Length
  
161 km

Route number(s)
  
State Route 102

Major cities
  
Mount Barker, Manjimup

Muirs Highway

West end
  
South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western Australia

East end
  
Albany Highway (State Route 30), Mount Barker, Western Australia

Major settlements
  
Lake Muir, Rocky Gully, Western Australia

Muirs Highway is a Western Australian highway linking Manjimup and Mount Barker on the Albany Highway. It is signed as State Route 102 and is 161 kilometres (100 mi) long. It provides a shorter distance between Manjimup and Albany. It is a lonely highway surrounded with karri and jarrah forests with no settlements in between except the small farming settlement of Rocky Gully.

Map of Muirs Hwy, Western Australia, Australia

Muirs 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.

References

Muirs Highway Wikipedia