Kalbarri National Park Z-Bend River Trail Lookout and Walk

Kalbarri National Park Z-Bend River Trail Lookout and Walk is a super fun adventure for a family day out. Best suited for kids aged five years upwards as there are plenty of fun obstacles to challenge the kids including a few rocks to climb and ladders to negotiate.

The National Park takes around 45 minutes to drive through from the Kalbarri town centre. The drive itself is a bumpy dirt track so expect the car to get dirty!

The Z-Bend look out walk is around 500 metres walk from the car park with breath taking views of the Murchison River and a stunning array of wild flowers.

Lookout from an overhanging rock formation that provides spectacular views of the Murchison River Gorge.

There’s even a lookout chair to take in the views.

Next, we took the look out path down to the River.

We visited in early Spring, so the wild flowers were out in full bloom giving us stunning flora and sweet smells throughout the walk.

The walk becomes quite challenging as you descend into the gorge and the path becomes narrow and rocky.

The kids had to negotiate big boulders and rocks and amazingly helped each other navigate up, over and around each obstacle and a ladder climb. It is quite a challenging climb, we had kids aged 4.5 years through to 8 years old, and all found the walk fun and full of adventures.

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The walk took around 2.5 hours from start to finish and included a play break at the river and a few snack stops. We even stopped to watch people abseil down the gorge and into the river