Qualla: Collier Range National Park

Collier Range National Park: Introduction

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Almost nobody goes to Collier Range. There is no visitor centre, no marked trail, no campground with a ranger waving you in. The park sits where the Pilbara begins to give way to the Gascoyne, a tangle of low red hills and high stony ridges around 880 kilometres northeast of Perth, and for most of its life it has been left largely to itself. That neglect is, in a strange way, part of its character. This is one of those Australian places that exists more as a line on a map than a destination, and the creatures that live there are mostly small, secretive and easy to miss.

Collier Range National Park: Where the Gascoyne Begins

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The ranges that give the park its name rise between the upper reaches of two great Western Australian rivers, the Ashburton and the Gascoyne, near the headwaters that feed water hundreds of kilometres west toward the coast. The country here varies from low hills to high ridges br...

Collier Range National Park: Small Lives in the Mulga

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

What makes Collier Range matter is not its scenery but its survivors. The park is home to the threatened Pilbara pebble-mound mouse, a remarkable little rodent that builds elaborate mounds of small stones around its burrows, the work of generations of mice piling pebble upon pebb...

Collier Range National Park: A Park Under Pressure

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Surviving in Collier Range has never been easy, and not only because of the climate. For years the park was visited only occasionally by wildlife staff from distant Karratha, baited against wild dogs but otherwise left exposed. Feral donkeys and wandering cattle trampled and graz...

Collier Range National Park: Country Returning to Its Owners

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The story is beginning to change, and the change comes from the people whose Country this has always been. The Jidi Jidi people are recognised as the traditional owners of Collier Range, and through an Indigenous Land Use Agreement the Jidi Jidi Aboriginal Corporation now jointly...