The former gold rush town of Coolgardie 558km east of Perth is a welcoming community which retains many aspects of its colourful historic past.

In its heyday, Coolgardie was the State’s third largest town after Perth and Fremantle and boasted two stock exchanges, three breweries, seven newspapers and 26 hotels.

While the town is famous for being the centre of Australia’s greatest gold rush in the late 1800s, the boom lasted only a short time.

Many of Coolgardie’s well preserved brick buildings, and wide streets, remain as popular tourist attractions.