Halls Creek: Discover art, history and nature

Halls Creek offers a range of reasons to visit: Aboriginal art, memorial sites and historic places sit alongside natural attractions in the surrounding area. You can focus on culture and history, or plan trips to gorges, swimming spots and landscapes. If you’re travelling with family, you can take everyone’s different interests into account when choosing day trips. Distances and access routes are also important to consider when deciding which excursions to include from Halls Creek.

Art and history in Halls Creek

Yarliyil Art Centre is located in the Halls Creek township. Yarliyil Arts is an Aboriginal-owned business with more than 100 artists as members. Visitors can buy ethical, fair-trade artworks there. For art lovers, this offers a distinct focus for their stay, separate from the town’s historic sites.

Memorial sites include the Russian Jack Memorial, a tourist attraction in Halls Creek. An obelisk in Shire Pioneer Park also serves as the Halls Creek War Memorial. Another statue in the park commemorates Jack Jugarie, who completed the 305-kilometre journey from Halls Creek to Wyndham in 1997, aged 70. The statue is located outside the visitor centre. The various memorials record different stories and give travellers interested in cultural history several specific subjects to explore.

The Halls Creek Trackers’ Hut is also culturally significant. It is tangible evidence of the former importance of Indigenous trackers and one of only two surviving trackers’ huts in the state of Western Australia. Nearby is Old Halls Creek, where the first gold discovery in Western Australia was made and the state’s gold rushes began. The ruins of the Old Stone Hut are also historically significant. If you want to focus on history, you can treat these places as separate destinations rather than planning your trip solely around nature experiences.

Natural attractions and different experiences

The surrounding area offers a range of ways to spend time outdoors. Caroline Pool is a picnic and bushwalking area among shady trees and broad, sandy creek banks. Sawpit Gorge combines bushwalking with the chance to experience wildlife. Palm Springs is the only permanent freshwater swimming hole in the immediate area. Each place offers a different experience, so you can choose between picnicking, bushwalking, wildlife and swimming when planning your outings.

Moola Bulla Lookout offers views over Halls Creek. The final 2.5-kilometre section to the lookout is on an unsealed road. Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater is also nearby, 145 kilometres away. It is the world’s second-largest crater from which meteorite fragments have been recovered. Purnululu National Park is 160 kilometres from Halls Creek; access requires a high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicle. If you include these destinations in your trip, you can consider their respective distances and requirements separately as you plan.

Getting there and choosing where to stay

Halls Creek has 360 kilometres of sealed roads and 1,433 kilometres of unsealed roads. Access routes also vary: the 1.5-kilometre section to China Wall is unsealed, but smooth enough for a two-wheel-drive vehicle. The final section to Moola Bulla Lookout is also unsealed; no vehicle requirement is specified for this route. Halls Creek Visitor Centre is a central point for visitor information and holiday bookings.

When choosing a holiday apartment or house, you can decide based on what matters to you on your trip: art and memorial sites in Halls Creek, historic places in the surrounding area, or trips to natural attractions. For more distant destinations such as Purnululu and Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, it’s worth factoring the stated distances into your day-trip plans.

If you’d like to compare other destinations, you can also find pages about Gingin, Eagle Bay, Bremer Bay, North Fremantle, Herne Hill, Bibra Lake, Bullsbrook and Baskerville.

For the broader travel overview: Western Australia.