Overview
About Circular Pool
Why stop
- A rim view into a red-rock gorge
Heads up
- The descent to the water is closed
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Karijini Tour Guide
Your drive to Circular Pool, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Karijini 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 Karijini audio tourRecorded for this place
Circular Pool Lookout and Dales Picnic Area“You’re approaching Circular Pool Lookout and Dales Picnic Area, a good stop for seeing Dales Gorge from above.”
Plays as you drive up to Circular Pool in the Parkwolf Karijini Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Fortescue Falls and Fern Pool
- Dales Campground: A Base for the Eastern Gorges
- The Bee That Shakes a Flower
- Which Way the Water Moved
- 141 audio storiesacross Karijini’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Dingo, Rock Wallaby, Mulga Snake, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 22 trails, 30 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Circular Pool
A pool in Dales GorgeCircular Pool is a natural stream pool at the eastern end of Dales Gorge, set below a rim of…
Circular Pool is a natural stream pool at the eastern end of Dales Gorge, set below a rim of red, terraced cliffs. The shaded water and enclosed gorge are the draw. Plan on a view from above for now: the descent trail to the pool is closed after rain damage and rockfalls.
See it from the rimThe separate Circular Pool Lookout remains open and gives the public view down into the water.
The separate Circular Pool Lookout remains open and gives the public view down into the water. The closed trail has further rockfall risk, so stay out until Parks and Wildlife says the route is safe. Keep to the signed rim access rather than trying another way down.
The red terracesCenturies of weathering have worn the gorge's red cliffs into shelves and ledges above the pool.
Centuries of weathering have worn the gorge's red cliffs into shelves and ledges above the pool. From the lookout, frame the dark, shaded water with those layered walls; the elevated view shows how tightly the gorge folds around it.
Gorge conditionsKarijini's gorges can flash flood.
Karijini's gorges can flash flood. Stay out of them when rain is in the area and leave immediately if it starts. The water in the park's gorge pools can also be very cold, especially from April through September.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Karijini
44 sightingsDingoMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
18 sightingsRock WallabyMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
15 sightingsMulga SnakeMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
36 sightingsHamersley Rock MonitorMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
13 sightingsWestern BowerbirdMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
34 sightingsChildren's PythonMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Karijini. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
