WALKING TRAILS
Foxes Lair has three picnic areas and five walk trails.
- The Banksia, Breakaway and Valley circuits are centred on the Marri picnic area.
The Granite Walk can be accessed from the Arboretum picnic area or the Range Road car park.
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
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Dampiera eriocephala mid October
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Valley Walk (red) is 800 metres 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.
Riot of colour in late September 3 years after fire
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Late October
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Banksia Walk (yellow) is 2.1 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
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Blue leschenaultia and Tassel grevillea
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Proteaceaeous 'Kwongan' scrub
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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
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Look for bullets on the bank
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Granite outcrops
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The Claypit walk (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
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Glimpse Narrogin from brown mallet breakaway
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Wandoo woodland
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