Muirs Highway | |
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| Muirs Highway at Rocky Gully | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 161 km (100 mi) |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 102 |
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| West end |  South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western Australia |
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| East end |  Albany Highway (State Route 30), Mount Barker, Western Australia |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Lake Muir, Rocky Gully |
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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[1] and is 161 kilometres (100 mi) long. It provides a shorter distance between Manjimup and Albany. It is a lonely highway surrounded with karri and jarrah forests with no settlements in between except the small farming settlement of Rocky Gully.[clarification needed]
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.[2]
The Muirs Highway passes through several localities including Manjimup, Dingup, Nyamup, Strachan, Murtinup, Rocky Gully and Mount Barker.[2][clarification needed]
Muirs 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.[3]
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34°22′59″S 116°27′01″E / 34.38311°S 116.45027°E / -34.38311; 116.45027
