Mary Pool, Mueller Ranges
24-hour stay recorded by Main Roads
Major Rest Area on Great Northern Hwy at Mueller Ranges, in Halls Creek, Western Australia. Main Roads records this as a stopping place where a 24-hour stay is available.
Signs override this page. Whatever is signed at the site is the rule that applies, no matter what is written here.
Check the sign before you rely on this. The regulations define a road side rest area as an area designated by a traffic sign, erected in accordance with a written law, as an area that may be used for 24 hours for resting, stopping or camping in a vehicle. The traffic sign is what brings a place within the exception. The dataset records what Main Roads holds; the traffic sign in front of you is the instrument, and it can have changed since this snapshot was taken.
Amenities
- Toilets (3)
- Shelter — none here
- Shade
- Table
- Bin
- Dump point
- Single Seal surface
Main Roads publishes no water, power, shower, lighting or accessible-toilet information for its stopping places. Where a facility is not listed above, the state has not said either way.
Where it is
-18.72866, 126.86023
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Council rules here (Halls Creek)
We have not read Halls Creek's local laws on camping or staying overnight in a vehicle, so this page makes no claim about them. They sit on top of the state regulations and can be stricter.
Where this comes from
- “for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road side rest area” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- “road side rest area means an area designated by a traffic sign erected in accordance with a written law, as an area which may be used for 24 hours for — (a) resting; or (b) stopping; or (c) camping, in a vehicle;” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- “A person may camp only — (a) at a site in a caravan park or camping ground, as appropriate, licensed under the Act; or (b) in accordance with regulation 11. Penalty: a fine of $2 000.” “PART 2 — REGULATIONS” “2. Regulation 10 ......................................................................... 200” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- “statutory penalty, in relation to an offence, means the penalty specified by a written law for the offence;” “If the statutory penalty for an offence is a fine of a particular amount or a particular term of imprisonment, then that penalty is the maximum penalty that may be imposed for that offence and, unless the statutory penalty — (a) is a mandatory penalty; or (b) includes a minimum penalty, a lesser penalty of the same kind may be imposed.” — Sentencing Act 1995 (WA), compilation 10-ag0-00, as at 31 December 2025 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- “The offences set out in column 1 of Schedule 4 are prescribed to be offences in respect of which an infringement notice may be given under section 23 of the Act.” “The modified penalty set out in column 2 of Schedule 4 opposite an offence referred to in column 1 is the prescribed modified penalty for that offence for the purposes of section 23(4) of the Act.” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- “Every proceeding for an offence under this Act may be taken by an authorised person.” “A reference in subsection (2), (3), (5) or (7) to an authorised person is a reference to a person appointed to be an authorised person under the Local Government Act 1995 section 9.10(2) for the purposes of the subsection in which the term is used.” “An authorised person who has reason to believe that a person has committed a prescribed offence against this Act may, within 21 days after the alleged offence is believed to have been committed, give an infringement notice to the alleged offender.” “to advise that if the alleged offender does not wish to be prosecuted for the alleged offence in a court, the amount of money as specified in the notice as being the modified penalty for the offence may be paid to an authorised person within a period of 28 days after the giving of the notice;” “If the modified penalty specified in an infringement notice has been paid within 28 days or such further time as is allowed and the notice has not been withdrawn, the bringing of proceedings and the imposition of penalties are prevented to the same extent as they would be if the alleged offender had been convicted by a court of, and punished for, the alleged offence.” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995 (WA), compilation 03-e0-00, as at 7 November 2020 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.
- Location, facilities and 24-hour stay status: Road Stopping Places, Main Roads Western Australia (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.
- Locality (Mueller Ranges): not published with the site — derived from its coordinates against Suburbs and Localities (SAL) 2021 — ASGS Edition 3, Australian Bureau of Statistics (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.