Midgegooroo National Park

{{Short description|National park in Western Australia}}

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| name = Midgegooroo National Park

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| type = National park

| location = Perth metropolitan region

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| area = {{cvt|2,492|ha}}

| established = 2004

| administrator = Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

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Midgegooroo National Park, formerly the Canning National Park, is a national park in the Perth metropolitan region of Western Australia, {{convert|43|km}} south-east of Perth. It is located in the City of Armadale,{{cite web |url=https://nationalmap.gov.au/ |title=NationalMap |author= |date= |website=nationalmap.gov.au |publisher=Geoscience Australia |access-date=31 August 2023 |quote=}}{{cite map |title=Western Australia Road and 4WD Track Atlas |last=Hema |first=Maps |year=2017 |publisher=Hema Maps |location=Eight Mile Plains, Queensland |isbn=978-1-86500-732-8 |pages=47}} and part of the Jarrah Forest bioregion.{{cite web |url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/capad2022-terrestrial-wa.xlsx |title=Terrestrial CAPAD 2022 WA summary |author= |website=www.dcceew.gov.au/ |publisher=Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |access-date=31 August 2023}}

Midgegooroo National Park was created as Class A reserve No. 47884 on 30 November 2004 with a size of {{convert|2,492|ha}}{{rp|p=44}} as one of nine national parks proclaimed in the state that day.{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/d00ca066-1c8c-412a-9e16-2a37647454a7/files/capad2014wa.xlsx |title=Australian Government - CAPAD 2014 - WA summary |author= |website=www.dcceew.gov.au/ |publisher=Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |access-date=31 August 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/0E54FB12A19A569F48256F1600273964/$File/Bill%2B337-2.pdf |title=Reserves (National Parks, Conservation Parks, Nature Reserves and Other Reserves) Bill 2004 (No. 337) |author= |website=www.parliament.wa.gov.au |publisher=Parliament of Western Australia |access-date=31 August 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/0E54FB12A19A569F48256F1600273964/$File/EM%2B-%2BBill%2B337-1.pdf |title=Reserves (National Parks, Conservation Parks, Nature Reserves and Other Reserves) Bill 2004 (No. 337) - Explanatory Memorandum |author= |website=www.parliament.wa.gov.au |publisher=Parliament of Western Australia |access-date=31 August 2023}}

The national park, on land whose traditional owners are the Whadjuk people, was renamed in 2008 after Midgegooroo, an Australian Aboriginal elder executed in 1833 for his resistance to European settlement by the settlers.{{cite web |url=https://exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/park/midgegooroo-national-park |title=Midgegooroo National Park |author= |date= |website=exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au |publisher=Government of Western Australia |access-date=31 August 2023 |quote=}} It was one of a number of national and regional parks to be renamed in the state at this point, among them the Pickering Brook National Park, which borders Midgegooroo to the north, and was renamed Korung National Park.{{cite web |url=https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Carpenter/2008/08/New-names-for-hills-parks-reflect-Aboriginal-heritage.aspx |title=New names for hills parks reflect Aboriginal heritage |publisher=Government of Western Australia |access-date=1 September 2023|date=7 August 2008 |archive-date=31 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131145532/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Carpenter/2008/08/New-names-for-hills-parks-reflect-Aboriginal-heritage.aspx |url-status=dead }}

The main features in the national park are Canning Dam and the Munda Biddi Trail, a long-distance mostly off-road cycling trail, which passes through the park.{{cite journal |title=What is in a name? |first=Samille |last=Mitchell |year=2008 |pages=42–46 |volume=24 |number=2, Summer 2008–09 |editor1-first=Kaye |editor1-last=Verboon |editor2-first=Samille |editor2-last=Mitchell |editor3-first=Rhianna |editor3-last=King |editor4-first=Carolyn |editor4-last=Thomson-Dans |journal=Parks of the Darling Range |issn=0815-4465 |publisher=Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Government of Western Australia |location=Kensington |url=https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/static/Journals/080052/080052-24.020.pdf |access-date=2025-02-02 }}{{rp|p=44}}