Holland Way. Any info.

Hi Tom

Did the Holland Way October, 2010.

Starts at Coolgardie and you just follow the Victoria Rock Road down until you meet the Hyden Norseman Road between McDermid Rock and Lake Johnston.

About 28kms from Victoria Rock the Holland Track runs into Victoria Rock Road.

The northern half is gravel, the southern end hard sandy surface and narrow in parts.

Hyden-Norseman Road good gravel into Hyden which I think was the end of the Holland Way from memory.

Camping at Gnarlbine, Victoria Rock, McDermid, Lake Johnston and the Breakaways.

78kms from the Breakaways to where the Holland Track crosses the John Holland Way (Hyden-Norseman Road) and a further 58kms to Hyden.

We had an off road van and had no problems.

Recommend the bakery in Hyden :-)

Hay Tom, what makes you think the Holland Track is "daunting" ?

Did the Holland Way from Hyden to Boyagin Rock a couple of years ago. Could of given you the PLT file if my computer hadn't stuffed itself on the trip.

From the Hyden Lake Noresman Rd head south from where the Holland Track crosses the road. Keep heading down the gravel track until you hit the Hyden Lake King Rd cross that and keep heading south west down the gravel track. Keep going the track then becomes the Newdegate North Rd. Go through Newdegate and turn onto the Lockart Rd keep heading south, turn right into the Newdegate - Pingarup Rd, left into the Needilup North Rd & then right into the Holland Tank Rd. Stop a while at the tank and scour the surrounding area - quite interesting. Holland Rocks are nearby as well.Good bush camping in the reserves around here.

After here the track basically petered out for us and we just meandered through towns like Lake Grace, Dumbleyung, Wagin, Narrogin, Pingelly and then onto Boyagin Rock, where we bush camped in the regeneration area well clear of the rock.

there is the book put out by Weststate Publications and written by Nick Underwood & Ian Elliot called Explore the Holland Track & Cave Hill. It includes proper directions from Wave Rock to Broomehill.Broomehill was where the track originally started in 1893 from & ended 500km later at Gnarlbine Rock south west of Coolgardie. I paid $10.95 for my copy a couple of years ago. And available at most WA newsagents. If not give Nick a call at Western 4WDriver magazine.

cheers

Dunc.

Thank you all for the info. This is what makes the ExploreOz site so good

Hi Tom

The only part of the Holland Way that was slow going was the first few kilometres at the southern end of the Victoria Rocks Road when we travelled the Way in 2007. It did not appear to have changed much last time we saw it. The Hyden-Norseman Road is a wide and well maintained for mining trucks with a lot of interested points signed, on which we have travelled with our caravan a couple of times. There would be no issues travelling on it with any caravan. Really wet weather may be another story. Our travelogue is here The John Holland Way
The preceding pages outline the parts of the Holland Track we travelled on, as we did not do the entire track due to concerns about the width of our F250 on narrow areas. Do not take your caravan on the Holland Track itself due to width and winding woodlands track. The subsequent pages are of our tour of the Woodlines, which proved to be a very interesting drive. We would have had no problems with our caravan on the woodlines that we travelled on.

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