Boorabin National Park

Boorabin National Park is located along the Great Eastern Highway in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, between Coolgardie and Southern Cross. The park gets its name from the Aboriginal named rock on the edge of the park and also the Boorabbin settlement, established in 1898.

The Boorabin National Park is situated on top of a plateau. The landscape is primarily sand and the vegetation there is quite distinctive growing is deep sands deposited over 50 million years ago. Today this erosion of this significant landscape is lessening. But as a result of past degradation, the sands are left very weathered, leached and lacking in nutrients.

Despite this, the vegetation is astonishingly diverse with countless species thriving in this environment. Vegetation ranges from the rich kwongan heaths, woodlands and mallee shrublands. The area is recognised for its unique variety of vegetation. With it's own designated plateau vegetation system. Other attributes that the park is known for and the wildflowers, Samphire and Salt Lakes.