WALKING TRAILS

​Foxes Lair  has three picnic areas and five walk trails.

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• The Banksia, Breakaway and Valley circuits are centred on the Marri picnic area.

You can also do a 3.2 kilometre walk comprising the Banksia and Valley walks by walking east down the combined Banksia/Marri Walk section then turning left or right at the intersection, doing the complete banksia and Valley loop and returning by the same trail.

The Claypit Walk is centred on the claypit picnic area.

The Granite Walk can be accessed from the Arboretum picnic area or the Range Road car park.

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Breakaway Walk (blue) is a 400 metre 10 minute walk. Take a gentle stroll through lateritic gravelly soils to a large breakaway with a view of the Narrogin valley. Parrot bush is very common underneath the marri and wandoo trees. Brown mallets line the breakaway slope.

View to the Narrogin valley

Dampiera eriocephala mid October

Valley Walk (red) is 1.4 kilometres long, and takes about 20 minutes. It goes down to a  shady sheoak valley below the Breakaway Walk and has orchids and other flowers that persist longer than other walks. check out the stark white spider orchids in September.

Riot of colour in late September 3 years after fire

Late October

Banksia Walk (yellow)  is 2 km long, and takes about 40 minutes. It features gravelly upland soils with marri- jarrah- wandoo woodland and proteaceous shrubs. A great diversity of wildflowers can be seen from August to October. 

Jarrah woodland patch

Blue leschenaultia and Tassel grevillea

Proteaceaeous 'Kwongan' scrub

The Granite Walk (black) is 1.2 kms long, and should take around 30 minutes. The Aboretum is in the first section of the Granite Walk. It features over 70 species of eucalypts. You'll pass through a beautiful York gum -wandoo- sheoak woodland with large granite rock outcrops. Look for the growth of trees between the rocks and the characteristics of the granite caused by surface weathering. Children can fossick for spent bullets at the old rifle range butt.

Everlastings and rock fern

Look for bullets on the bank

Granite outcrops

The Claypit walk (1.8km 40minutes purple) traverses a range of landcapes and soil types and features wildflowers not found elsewhere in Foxes Lair. These include Leschenaultia formosa (Red leschenaultia), Banksia fraseri, Calothamnus quadrifidus, Calytrix leschenaultia and Petrophile heterophylla. There are some steep slopes with stairs up breakways that offer a glimpse of Narrogin town. Late afternoon sun 'paints'  the trees  gleaming copper and silver, this is a good time to see grey kangaroos.

Banksia Fraserii on red clay in July

Glimpse Narrogin from brown mallet breakaway

Wandoo woodland