Muir Highway Explained

Road Name:Muir Highway
State:WA
Type:highway
Length:161
Route: State Route 102
Direction A:West
End A: South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western Australia
Direction B:East
End B: Albany Highway (State Route 30), Mount Barker, Western Australia
Through:Lake Muir,

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 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 occasional 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: WESTERN AUSTRALIAN STATE ROUTES 2024 . Main Roads WA . 4 December 2024.
  2. Main Roads Western Australia . South West Region map . 13 August 2013 . Version 1.0 . Main Roads Western Australia . PDF . 28 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130928110116/https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Documents/REGION%20STATE%20ROAD%20CONDITION%20MAP%20138%20138%20SOUTH%20WEST.RCN-D13%5E233472.PDF . 28 September 2013 . dead.
  3. Web site: Muirs Highway (State Route 102). Road Photos & Information: Western Australia. 19 January 2018. Paul Rands.
  4. Web site: Shire of Manjimup. Shire of Manjimup. Deeside Homestead Group. inHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 22 January 2017. Perth, WA. 1 January 2017.