You can go hiking, rambling, trekking and tramping but in our parks we call it bushwalking.

Bushwalking includes everything from short walks on flat, well-formed tracks to multi-day expeditions that should only be attempted by the fit, experienced and skilled.

There are thousands of kilometres of trails managed by Parks and Wildlife to explore. To help you decide whether a trail offers an experience you're looking for, and that you can enjoy safely, most have been classified according to the Parks and Wildlife Service Walking Trail Classification System. This classification system is very similar to others used throughout Australia. The table describes what to expect for trails in each classification. Always check the trail classification before heading out on the trail. 

You can find detailed information on trails at Trails WA. You can also find information about WA’s two longest walk trails at Bibbulmun Track and Cape to Cape Track. These trails cover 1000km and 150km respectively, but shorter sections are often completed as day walks. There are sections suitable for almost everyone.

Tour operators provide safe and enjoyable tours at many locations in Western Australia. Tours are great if it's your first time bushwalking but also for experienced walkers visiting and wanting to learn about new locations.

Reduce your environmental impact by staying on established trails and camping in designated campgrounds if your bushwalk is overnight. You will also be safer and less likely to get lost. If you, or one of your party, suffer an injury or illness, it will be easier for help to reach you.

Bushwalking takes you away from the busiest areas of parks. You will meet less people, be more deeply immersed in the natural environment and need to rely more on your own physical capabilities and resources. To help you prepare, and to enjoy safe bushwalking, see the menu of more detailed Safety advice, especially the sections on Bushwalking and Natural area hazards.

A number of bushwalking clubs offer a wide range of walks with experienced leaders as well as navigation and safety training. Find out more from HikeWest.

The Orienteering Western Australia and the Western Australian Rogaining Association run various cross-country navigation events. Like all events that take place in our parks, their likely impacts are assessed before they are given permission to proceed (see 'Conducting an event in a park').

Cape Arid National Park

Take a walk, swim, snorkel, fish, four-wheel drive or camp on the wild side.

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Cape Le Grand National Park

Wild coastal scenery, beaches, bays, and bush walks, life’s grand at Cape Le Grand!

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Cape Range National Park

Raw, natural, nature at its best - Cape Range National Park is part of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area.

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Coalseam Conservation Park

Come for the spectacular exhibit of wildflowers and stay for the sweeping views, geological displays and mining history. 

 

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Credo Conservation Park

Bushwalks, birds and blooms in the outback. And possibly the odd ghost or two!

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D'Entrecasteaux National Park

An impressive name for an impressive park - explore huge mobile sand dunes, volcanic rock columns by the sea, see a shipwreck, freshwater lakes and so much more.

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Dan͟ggu Geikie Gorge National Park

This place is Dan͟ggu Geikie Gorge-ous!

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Diamond State Forest

Look up at the huge Diamond Tree #didyouknow it used to be a fire lookout? 

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Dimalurru (Tunnel Creek) National Park

Sometimes tunnel vision is a good thing!

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Dryandra Woodland National Park

If you love bushwalking, birds and spotting elusive native wildlife, definitely check out this place!

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Drysdale River National Park

Extremely rugged and remote wilderness - untouched and amazing from the air.

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Dwellingup State Forest

Escape deep into the Darling Range jarrah forest and find Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

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