Overview
About Loop/ Z-Bend Entry Station
Why stop
- Ticket machine available 24 hours
Heads up
- Very limited space to unhitch trailers nearby
Map
Where it is

The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Kalbarri Tour Guide
Your drive to Loop/ Z-Bend Entry Station, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Kalbarri National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Kalbarri audio tourRecorded for this place
Loop and Z Bend Entry Station“The Loop and Z Bend Entry Station is ahead, where you can pay the park entry fee and get information for the inland gorges. Caravans and trailers can't continue onto the Loop, Z Bend or Nature's Window roads.”
Plays as you drive up to Loop/Z-Bend Entry Station in the Parkwolf Kalbarri Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Seeds with a Food Parcel
- The Sticky Side of Sundews
- The Zuytdorp Mystery
- Taking the Sting Out
- 58 audio storiesacross Kalbarri’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Perentie, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Western Grey Kangaroo, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 18 trails, 19 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
Guide
More about Loop/ Z-Bend Entry Station
A practical stop before the gorgesLoop/Z-Bend Entry Station is the fee and information stop on the road into Kalbarri's inland…
Loop/Z-Bend Entry Station is the fee and information stop on the road into Kalbarri's inland gorge country. Stop here to pay the park entry fee and get park information before continuing to Loop or Z Bend. It is a useful errand stop rather than a view in its own right.
If you're towingTrailers and caravans cannot continue onto the Loop, Z Bend or Nature's Window gorge roads.
Trailers and caravans cannot continue onto the Loop, Z Bend or Nature's Window gorge roads. There is an area just beyond the station to unhitch, but space is very limited. If you're towing, plan to unhitch in Kalbarri before driving out.
Paying the entry feeThe ticket machine at the main entrance is available 24 hours a day.
The ticket machine at the main entrance is available 24 hours a day. Payment methods were not confirmed, so check current entry guidance if you need to know what it accepts.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Kalbarri
29 sightingsPerentieMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
12 sightingsWedge-tailed EagleMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
33 sightingsWestern Grey KangarooMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
44 sightingsBlack-flanked Rock WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
24 sightingsEmuMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
23 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Kalbarri. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.









