Muir Highway
Highway in Western Australia
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Muir Highway,[1] also called 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[2] and is 161 kilometres (100 mi) long. It provides a shorter distance between the cities of Bunbury and Albany. It is a lowly populated highway passing mostly through karri and jarrah with occasional areas of farmland.
South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western AustraliaMuir Highway | |
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| Muir Highway at Rocky Gully | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 161 km (100 mi) |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 102 |
| Major junctions | |
| 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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One village, Rocky Gully lies on the highway, although it also passes through the localities of Dingup, Nyamup, Lake Muir, Strachan and Murtinup.
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.[3]
Muir 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.[4]
Major intersections
| LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Manjimup | Manjimup | 0 | 0.0 | South Western Highway (National Route 1) – Bunbury, Bridgetown, Walpole, Albany | Western terminus at roundabout. Continues west as Pritchard Street |
| Plantagenet | Rocky Gully | 95 | 59 | Rocky Gully–Frankland Road – Frankland River, Kojonup | |
| Mount Barker | 149 | 93 | Denmark-Mount Barker Road – Denbarker, Denmark | ||
| 161 | 100 | Albany Highway (State Route 30) – Perth, Kojonup, Cranbrook, Albany | Eastern terminus at roundabout. Continues east as Woogenellup Road | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
