Perth to Norseman via Hyden with a van

It's not a couple of days Dian, but it is certainly longer. If time is the issue why not do it on the way back?

Hi Dian

So long as there has not been recent heavy rain, i think it is easily doable.

We have found the Norseman Hyden road a good wide well maintained road. You need to be alert for the Mining Co road trains. I read a report on another forum of someone who went through in January and found it bad - all good reports since then though. Breakaways is a wonderful spot to camp.

Just checking my diary - we came home that way with the caravan in February 2005 to go somewhere different (the Norseman Lake King road is our normal short cut). We had bush camped around 140 kms east of Norseman and left normal time. We at first started out on the wrong road from Norseman - our map showed the old Norseman Hyden Road not the new one, and we soon got to signage that we were on an unmaintained road so backed out and returned to Norseman to find the right road. Stopping at lots of the signed features and doing walks (rocks etc) we turned south on the Forrestania Marvel Lock Road, and toured through rural back roads around Newdegate to Lake Grace. Kept going until we got to our farm at Dinninup in the south west that evening.

All being well, you should make it to the Breakaways to camp, which are only 50 kms from the Forrestania Road junction. I'm not sure how far the bitumen goes between Hyden and this junction - it may be all the way. After the Breakaways, you've only got about 250 kms to Norseman. Easy.

Motherhen

It's one of my favourite roads. There are mines working out that way and they keep the road in good nik. Mudh better than sharing the tarmac with all the heavy trucks/traffic.

There is a nice place to stop by the dry (mostly) lake where it is wooded and, you know, out there. The caravan park at Hyden is good with a better than average ablutions and you can check out the Wave Rock without paying the national park fee if you stay.

Do it man

Owen

Hi Dian,
We haven't been on that road for awhile, though I hope this info helps.
Yes, there are mining sites along the road and the road is in very good condition near their sites, unless the road has been graded recently there is a nicely corrugated road to travel. I agree that if you are on a time line to Sydney, then use this route for your return trip ... and as a wind down. A very nice camping location is the Breakaways, we were informed about this location on EO and it is very nice.

While the blacktop run may be boring, depending on the current condition of the road ... the Hyden Norseman road may take far longer to travel a similar distance.

Cheers,
Wayne & Sally.

Hi
I did this road just after Boxing Day 2008 and found it to be a good road there was one section that was corrugated, just adjust speed to suit. We passed a Falcon sedan on this section and it was bouncing abit more than we were. Travel time we left Kelmscott (Perth) at 8.00am and arrived in Norseman early afternoon (~2pm)the same day, and made bush camp just west of Balladonia .
Mike