Foxes Lair Reserve

Foxes Lair is a 68-hectare nature reserve on the edge of Narrogin town. Whether you are an avid bush walker, bird watcher, wildflower enthusiast, or love native animals, trees, photography, natural rock formations, or history, you will find them all here. The landscape in Foxes Lair is diverse, ranging from gravelly uplands and breakaways to large granite boulders and valleys 3 picnic areas and 5 walk trails enable you to explore them and their special wildflowers and wildlife.

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Banksia Trail

2 KILOMETRES

Trail features gravelly upland soils with marri- jarrah- wandoo woodland and shrubs containing great diversity of winter/spring wildflowers.

Valley Loop

1.4 KILOMETRES

Trail leads down to a shady sheoak valley below the Breakaway Walk with orchids and flowers that persist longer there than other walks.

Breakaway Trail

400 METRES

This trail is a gentle stroll through lateritic gravelly soils to a large breakaway with a great view of the Narrogin valley. Parrot bush is common underneath the marri and wandoo trees, and brown mallets line the breakaway slope.

Claypit Circuit

1.8 KILOMETRES

This trail starts at the Claypit and winds through landscapes and vegetation not found elsewhere in Foxes Lair. There are some steep slopes with stairs and a glimpse of Narrogin town. Keep an eye out for red leschenaultia in Spring.

Granite Trail

1.2 KILOMETRES

This trail is popular with kids. From the Range Road car park and Arboretum picnic area it goes past the arboretum and the old rifle range bank where kids can fossick for spent bullets. The trail then wanders through large granite rock outcrops and hilly York gum -wandoo- sheoak woodland.