cave hill track
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brownie
Gday All,
We are planning on visiting
Cave Hill (S of
Coolgardie). The track notes say 4wd only - I have a 4wd and a large camper trailer, Is the track suitable for the camper??
Time/speed won't be an issue & if it rains we will go elsewhere.
Cheers Neil
Reply By: Member - John Baas (WA) - Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:08
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:08
Neil. The track is quite narrow in
places between
Cave Hill and
Burra Rock on the old woodline formation, if that's your plan. Partic. just north of
Cave Hill.
If your trailer is wider than your vehicle it might be an issue.
Otherwise careful driving would see you thru. The general lie is dead flat but with some short washaway detours that take you down off the formation.
However, alternative good roads get you to both
places.
Cheers.
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Reply By: get outmore - Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:53
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:53
place has lost its appeal somewhat with the roads put in now
back in the day I took a 2wd campervan into
cave hill via Higgansville
but you can now get there via widgie then on to
Burra rock and
coolgardie via lovely graded roads
Ive travelled the woodlines a few times once in an oversized 4wd campervan without too many issues
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Reply By: Motherhen - Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:03
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:03
Hi Neil
We went with the F250 without the caravan, but it would not have been a problem. We went to
Burra and
Cave Hill rocks and camped at the latter. Very interesting
places with the history of the Woodlines and we too a few of the major tracks. Other tracks may have been too narrow, but none of the ones we went on were.
Motherhen
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Reply By: wozzie (WA) - Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:26
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:26
Neil
We just went there last week.
We has set out to follow the "original"
Holland Track from the
Hyden Norseman road.
This "WAS" not a good idea with what we were towing, "VERY" narrow and it took us at least a total of 5 ~ 6 hours to negotiate. Too many scratches to recommend it.
We were in a 4WD and towing a Jayco Dove outback. We decided to get of the "Track" at the Marveloch- Forrestania road and travelled south again to the
Hyden -
Norseman road and then went up the Victoria Rockroad.
Before
Victoria rock we turned off to the right and went down the track to
Cave Hill.
For the most part this was ok, and with enough clearance. although a bit squeezy at times. Only found a couple of
places where I had to crawl through in 4WD low range to ease everything through some serious wheel ruts and a few watery patches.
You may of course be coming "down" from
Coolgardie, through
Burra rocks and then onto
Cave hill, via the normal road, as we did leaving
Cave hill. This road was Ok with plenty of clearance.
There is also the road via the woodlines, I believe, which I don't know anything about.
Hope this is of some help.
Tony
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Reply By: brownie - Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:40
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:40
Thanks for your replies - we were planning on heading in & out from
Coolgardie
it sounds good to me so far.
I've travelled in this area about 10 years ago, but that was prior to the camper trailer hanging off the back !! And tracks and memories do change over the years.
Cheers Neil
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