For many reasons we do not allow visiting dogs. MELANGATA STATION DOES NOT ALLOW VISITING DOGS OR PETS. Melangata Station was first taken up as a pastoral lease in the early 1900s. It has had mixed fortunes over the years and due to drought and the depression was abandon from the 1930s to early 1940s. The Homestead is very unusual as it was designed by Monsignor John Hawes who was a local Priest a
rchitect who was responsible for the design and construction of many buildings in the Midwest of Western Australia including the Catholic Cathedral in Geraldton, Our Lady of Carmel Church and buildings in Mullewa and many others from Perenjori in the south to Carnarvon in the north. Melangata Homestead is the only privately owned residential building he designed that was ever built in Australia and one of only a handful of private buildings in the world. Melangata Station Stay offers fully catered adults only homestead stays. The campground has un powered sites close to the old shearing shed and there are flush toilets and hot showers for your convenience. There is a cottage at the Shearer's quarters that can sleep a family of 3-4 that has access to the cookhouse/ kitchen and bathroom facilities. Our latest addition to our accommodation are our bell tents. they are fully furnished with real off the floor beds the family tent has a queen bed and two singles, the queen tent has a queen bed and comfy chairs to relax in and the twin tent has two single beds. All tents are a short walk to the Shearer's quarters cook house/ kitchen and bathroom facilities. There is plenty of cooking equipment, tables, chairs crockery, cutlery and a fridge for you to use while you stay. We conduct historic homestead tours at 10am daily from April to October and this can be combined with a delicious homestead cooked morning tea of scones jam and cream with real barista coffee. We also offer for larger groups camp oven cooking classes. These can be organised by prior arrangement and are fantastic for large groups travelling together such as escorted tours, 4wdrive club and camper trailer or caravan clubs. We offer guided self drive tagalong tours of the station and these can be arranged on arrival for the next day. We have a few pet animals that guests are welcome to interact with and possibly help feed at feeding time. Melangata Station is situated centrally to beautiful displays of wildflowers when the seasons are good we are also a nice drive away to the Historic town of Cue and Mount Magnet
Along the road to Cue you will also find the Dalgaranga Meteorite Crater, Walga Rock, ( third largest rock in Australia and with an impressive Aboriginal art gallery) and Big Bell mine site. All are worth a visit and all cost absolutely nothing but your time to visit. Melangata, although it has no known gold to be found, is surrounded by known prospecting patches in the area. There are numerous Granite outcrops and Breakaways that provide fantastic opportunities for finding wildflowers and sighting native animals, birds and reptiles. We no longer allow visiting dogs to the station. quite simply this whole area is unsafe for them and we can't in good conscience encourage people to bring their dogs and risk a tragedy. Melangata Station Stay is open all year round in the camp ground and in the Homestead from the 1st of April to October. We are still cleaning up 20 years of rubbish around the homestead and bringing some of the facilities into the 21st century to make not only our lives easier but provide our guests with clean modern facilities so everything is a work
in progress and we ask for your understanding
if things are just not quite there yet. Apparently
Rome wasn't built in a day. We look forward to
seeing you in the future. Jo and Ken.
