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Mundaring Weir Road

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Type
  
Road

Major suburbs
  
Mundaring Weir

Via
  
Mundaring Weir

Tourist routes
  
Tourist Drive 207

Length
  
24 km

Mundaring Weir Road

Northeast end
  
Great Eastern Highway (National Highway 94), Mundaring

Southwest end
  
Canning Road (State Route 41), Kalamunda

Mundaring Weir Road is a road in the outer eastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia that links Mundaring and Kalamunda.

Map of Mundaring Weir Rd, Western Australia, Australia

Although an earlier rough track existed in a similar route, the road was developed in the late 1930s

It is the primary access route for Mundaring Weir, a dam and tourist attraction. It is a single carriageway for its entire length, with one lane in either direction. It crosses the alignment of the long since removed Mundaring Weir Railway a number of times, before crossing the Helena River just west of the first pumping station for the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

It passes east of the Beelu National Park, and north of Mount Gunjin

It starts from Phillips Road in Mundaring, 35 km east of Perth's central business district, and heads south towards the weir from which it derives its name through State Forest regions. It then heads west, providing access to the sparsely populated and largely forested agricultural localities of Hacketts Gully and Paulls Valley, before entering Kalamunda from the east. It terminates at a roundabout in Kalamunda's town centre.

It has been a vital link into forestry areas – and also areas subjected to bushfire in recent years.

The Darling Range Tourist Drive (Tourist Drive 207) follows Mundaring Weir Road as it travels between Mundaring and Kalamunda.

References

Mundaring Weir Road Wikipedia