Overview
About Circular Pool Lookout
Why stop
- Clear top-down view into Dales Gorge.
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 Lookout, 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 Lookout 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 Lookout
A view from the rimCircular Pool Lookout is a rim viewpoint over Circular Pool in Dales Gorge, looking across…
Circular Pool Lookout is a rim viewpoint over Circular Pool in Dales Gorge, looking across layered red cliffs into a gorge about 100 metres deep. It’s a worthwhile stop if you want the shape of the gorge from above. The pool sits below, so this is a viewpoint rather than a water-level stop.
Follow the gorge edgeThe 2.
The 2.4 km Gorge Rim Walk follows the edge and connects Circular Pool Lookout with Fortescue Falls Lookout. Stop here for the downward view, or make it one part of a longer look around Dales Gorge.
Red rock and permanent waterThe wider Dales Recreation Area pairs permanent waterfalls, pools and ferns with red, terraced…
The wider Dales Recreation Area pairs permanent waterfalls, pools and ferns with red, terraced cliffs weathered by centuries of exposure. From the lookout, the layered walls and pool below show how sharply the gorge cuts into the landscape. For a photo, include the pool and a strip of red rim in the same frame; that gives the drop some scale.
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.
