Murujuga National Park
Just off the dramatic Dampier Highway, Murujuga’s bright orange rock faces are representative of the color scheme that defines northwest Australia.
The park is home to the oldest known petroglyphs in the world, carved roughly 40,000 years ago, depicting many of Australia’s surviving and extinct species. It is also close to the Horizontal Falls, off the coast of The Kimberley, which have been described by David Attenborough as one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.
The park is only a 35-minute drive from the mining city of Karratha, or nine hours of scenic driving from Broome.
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Nambung National Park
More popularly known as The Pinnacles, Nambung is one of the most popular parks in Western Australia, partially due to its proximity to Perth. Only two hours from the state capital, you’ll find yourself among the otherworldly limestone stacks scattered amongst the desert’s amber sands.
The towers are the remnants of the Palaeolithic sea floor, once barriers for the gigantic dinosaurs that roamed the seas. Today you can walk for hours and see thousands of the existing structures, or take a scenic driving route past some of the highlights.