Zig Zag Scenic Drive
Winding former railway grade down a forested escarpment, now a scenic drive shared with wildlife.
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This guide to Zig Zag Scenic Drive in the Perth Hills traces the road's double life: laid out in eighteen ninety-one as a timber railway zigzagging down the Darling Scarp, then reborn as one of Perth's favourite scenic drives. It follows what happened when the same isolation that made the drive beautiful by day turned dangerous after dark, and why the City of Kalamunda eventually locked its gates at night. Listen for the kangaroos and black cockatoos that share the hillside today.
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