Pickering Brook
Pickering Brook is a small town in the middle of orchard country surrounded by State Forest Reserves of magnificent Jarrah and Marri trees supplemented with hundreds of colourful wildflowers. The hillsides have row after row of fruit trees with fresh water streams meandering through the bottom of the valleys. It is a truly beautiful place set in the peace and quiet of the bush surroundings, and the drive through from Kalamunda to Karragullen is very pleasant.
The name is believed to be derived from that of Captain Edward Picking, one of the first land grantees on the Helena River, who settled here in 1830. How or why the name was corrupted to its present form is not known.
Korung National Park is popular for bushwalking. The Munda Biddi Bike Trail and the Kattamorda Heritage Trail run through parts of the park. There are no picnic facilities located within the Park, however the Water Corporation manage the picnic facilities at New Victoria Dam, which can be accessed off Canning Road.
A bushland reserve in the southern section of the Darling Range, the major recreation facilities located near the Park are provided by the Water Corporation at Canning Dam. Access to this picnic site is off McNess Drive, Roleystone or Canning Dam Road off Albany Highway.
Several Mountain Bike trails run either through the Canning National Park or adjacent State Forest areas. The Munda-Biddi Mountain Bike trail which will eventually go all the way to Albany runs through the National Park.
Christmas Tree Well is located on Brookton Highway and was once used as a watering hole for coach/horse travelers between Perth and Brookton. In Spring and Summer, visitors are treated to the colourful display of the native Christmas Tree.
Karragullen is an agricultural area predominantly known as orchard country. Many of the orchards were developed by Italian migrants in the 1930s and 1940s and these have subsequently been taken over by their 1st and 2nd generation Australian descendants. Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range Railway.
