Quinninup Falls — Attraction in Wilyabrup

Having tried navigating to this "hidden gem" I'd say it's not worth the trouble. Someone should really put proper signage warning people than the crummy home botch job that's there saying "National Park". Need to warn people right the beginning if you don't have a properly hevay duty 4WD then turn around and goto a winery down the road instead. 😁

Google maps loses its way around when you are supposed to go straight. It is fenced off by someone's property near where the falls are.

The obscure roads to the Falls starts off ok but it gets really rough really quickly. It traverses through light sandy roads to red dirt, then it gets a little hilly and bumpy. Then followed by some rock hopping and there are some deep ruts that show up. The inexperienced driver would find it rather challenging. People with "soft-roaders" with no low range gearing just stay away. You're going to do yourself damage and get stuck.

The hill climbs & descents are fairly serious and there were times when my 4WD had to select different terrain modes to navigate the road. With the rain bearing down in winter a vehicle which doesn't have much clearance will bottom out especially when you hit the soft sandy section past the turn off from Quinninup Beach. The ruts are very deep. We tried helping someone in an old Kluger today which bottomed out badly in that section.

Another off-roader got out and walked to the falls on foot. They said there was very little water and we didn't miss much and this was in the middle of winter. Thank you global warming. 😲

You have been warned. Take...

The hike was really nice in the cooler weather. Definitely park at Moses Rock. There’s even a public toilet there. We tried to find a shortcut by driving via Quininup Road and failed. I went with two young ones - 10 years and 6 years old. The hike from Moses Rock is relatively okay, especially the initial bit is mostly rather flat up to the Quininup lookout point. Towards the last 1/3rd of it was sandy, so it gets a bit harder. There’s a downhill bit in the sand, not too steep, but can be a bit of an effort coming back up. I didn’t read the signs and saw some rocks stacked on each other. Unfortunately I thought it was just a fun thing someone else did, so I touched one of them; later my wife who showed me a pic of the signs says NOT to touch them - it was for worship and I’m really sorry about it. The last bit at the end where you’ll go down to see the fall becomes really steep and sandy, so it is quite slippery - perhaps not suitable for really young kids without proper hiking shoes. The 6 years old didn’t make it down the last bit to the falls, but everyone else - incl. adults did. The fall itself was kinda small and disappointing, we were expecting a bigger one, but nevertheless the hike was...

It's absolutely pumping after a massive 100+mm of rain, and as at 30/7/25 many parts of the track are still flooded and mudded.

I wore gumboots (with thick socks to prevent blisters) and had no trouble handling extended stretches of 10cm deep pools of muddy sludge, plus ankle-deep, steep, wet sand on the final hill. I would say not suitable for under 8s unless they have prior hiking experience. Not suitable for influencers or drones.

NO DOGS - this is inside the national park. Many native animals will flee at the scent of a dog, some do not return for many months, some never come back. DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG.

Many parts of the wetlands boardwalk are dismantled and under repair, which means you walk IN the wet, not over it.

10,000% worth the effort. Go gently, don't break, trample, or pull on plants as handrails. With thanks to the Wardandi people of the Noongar...