Muirs Highway is a Western Australian highway linking Manjimup and Mount Barker, which is on the Albany Highway. It is signed as State Route 102^[1] and is 161 kilometres (100 mi) long. It provides a shorter distance between Manjimup and Albany. It is a lonely highway surrounded with karri and jarrah forests with no settlements in between except the small farming settlement of Rocky Gully.^{[clarification needed]}

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Muirs Highway Western Australia
Muirs Highway at Rocky Gully
General information
Type	Highway
Length	161 km (100 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 102
Major junctions
West end	South Western Highway (National Route 1), Manjimup, Western Australia
	Rocky Gully–Frankland Road Denmark–Mount Barker Road
East end	Albany Highway (State Route 30), Mount Barker, Western Australia
Location(s)
Major settlements	Lake Muir, Rocky Gully
Highway system
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It is primarily used as a freight route for plantation timber trucks and interstate long vehicles servicing the horticultural areas of the South West. The road is a two way, single carriageway bitumen surfaced highway.^[2]

The Muirs Highway passes through several localities including Manjimup, Dingup, Nyamup, Strachan, Murtinup, Rocky Gully and Mount Barker.^{[2][clarification needed]}

Muirs Highway was named after brothers Thomas and John Muir, the first European settlers in the Warren district, who settled at Deeside in 1852 and built a rush hut there in 1856.^[3]

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