Parking
Use the Mount Bruce car park and follow the Marandoo View path from the parking area. The start is shared with longer Mount Bruce walks.
Overview
About Marandoo View
Why go
- A very short, easy route to a distinctive mine panorama.
- A useful contrast with Karijini’s gorge scenery.
Heads up
- The payoff is industrial scenery rather than a gorge or summit.
Map & elevation
The route
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Full mapElevation740–750 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Karijini Tour Guide
Your drive to Marandoo View, 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 trailhead
Mount Bruce and Marandoo View0:00 / 0:27
“You're approaching the trailhead for Mount Bruce, also called Punurrunha.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Karijini Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Why Wet Rock Looks Darker
- Why Gum Leaves Hang Down
- The Microbes Behind the Iron
- Earth's Shadow at Dusk
- 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!!!!”
Trail guide
Hiking Marandoo View
A quick viewpoint walkMarandoo View is a short out-and-back from the Mount Bruce car park to a lookout over the…
Marandoo View is a short out-and-back from the Mount Bruce car park to a lookout over the Marandoo iron-ore mine. It’s 500 m return and takes about 30 minutes. I’d add it if you want one easy walk that shows a side of Karijini its gorge trails don’t; skip it if an industrial view isn’t your thing.
What the path reachesFollow the path east from the Mount Bruce parking area through open spinifex country.
Follow the path east from the Mount Bruce parking area through open spinifex country. Most of it is unpaved, with one short metal-grid bridge, before it reaches the viewpoint; you return the same way. Marandoo’s red mine cut and processing buildings sit across the dry scrub, with the Hamersley Range behind them. The range contains about 80% of Australia’s identified iron-ore reserves, so the view puts the geology and modern industry together. For a photo, keep some spinifex in the foreground to show the distance between the park and the mine.
Heat and accessMount Bruce summer temperatures can exceed 40°C.
Mount Bruce summer temperatures can exceed 40°C. Go in the cooler hours and carry water and sun protection. A toilet is listed at the Mount Bruce car park. Ordinary pets aren’t permitted in Karijini; certified assistance animals are the exception.
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.
