Take on the great outback with these eight most Instagrammable&nbsp;road trips within Western Australia.

There&rsquo;s something liberating about exploring a new place while&nbsp;on a road trip. You make your own rules and travel on your&nbsp;own time&mdash;which means you can spend as long as you like&nbsp;admiring the great outdoors.
Over in Western Australia (WA), going on a road trip is the&nbsp;best way to discover the outback and areas beyond the main&nbsp;city of Perth. The next time you&rsquo;re headed over to WA, block&nbsp;out some time in your itinerary, rent a car, and explore the&nbsp;great outdoors on four wheels. You won&rsquo;t regret it.

CORAL COAST HIGHWAY
As the famous quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson goes, it&rsquo;s not about&nbsp;the destination&mdash;it&rsquo;s about the journey. This rings true, especially&nbsp;for this trip along the Coral Coast Highway, where the journey&nbsp;is the entire point of the road trip. Spanning over 1,200km, start&nbsp;your journey from Perth and head north along the coast. You can&nbsp;stop anywhere or take the full 10-day trip to Exmouth.
Along your drive up the coast, stop by iconic spots to catch&nbsp;the local wildlife in action. Key stops include Shark Bay for&nbsp;dolphins and dugongs; Ningaloo Reef for manta rays, whale&nbsp;sharks, and humpback whales; Kalbarri for bird watching;&nbsp;and Jurien Bay for sea lions.
You can&rsquo;t miss out on Hutt Lagoon for Instagram-worthy shots&nbsp;of its iconic Millennial-pink waters. The lake gets its colour&nbsp;from dunaliella salina, a carotenoid-producing algae. Charter&nbsp;a flight that brings you over the lake for an extra scenic view.&nbsp;You&rsquo;ll get an aerial view of Hutt Lagoon and its pink waters&nbsp;contrasting against the blue ocean waters and green vegetation&nbsp;surrounding the area.

MARGARET RIVER
If your schedule doesn&rsquo;t permit a more extended road trip,&nbsp;fret not. There are always shorter road trips from Perth thathave just as much to offer, including a trip out to the Margaret&nbsp;River wine region.
One of the most well-known wine regions in WA, Margaret&nbsp;River is home to many fantastic, award-winning wineries&nbsp;that will keep your thirst and hunger at bay. All this for only&nbsp;three hours of driving from Perth. When in Margaret River,&nbsp;you can&rsquo;t miss out on Vasse Felix, the region&rsquo;s founding wine&nbsp;estate. The sprawling cellar door also houses a restaurant, so&nbsp;you can begin with a wine tasting and end with a delicious&nbsp;meal made from local, seasonal produce.
Another winery worth checking out in Margaret River is&nbsp;Voyager Estate. Known for their commitment to sustainability&nbsp;efforts, they&rsquo;re now fully organic certified. Take a tour of&nbsp;the estate or have a wine-tasting experience&mdash;Cabernet&nbsp;Sauvignon and Chardonnay are their stars&mdash;accompanied by&nbsp;some curated bites.

CANNING STOCK ROUTE
Those who enjoy adrenaline should undoubtedly explore the&nbsp;Canning Stock Route. Spanning 1,800km from Halls Creek&nbsp;to Wiluna, you&rsquo;ll need to apply for a permit before taking this&nbsp;road trip. This route is known to be one of the most challenging&nbsp;four-wheel drive road trips in the world&mdash;so only take this&nbsp;journey if you&rsquo;re an experienced four-wheel driver. The terrain&nbsp;is remote, and it takes a little over 14 days to complete the route.
The Canning Stock Route also has a deep&mdash;and controversial&mdash;&nbsp;history. The WA government commissioned the track in 1910&nbsp;as an alternative route for getting beef cattle to the south until&nbsp;1959, making this the longest historic stock route in the world.
Notable stops along the way include the Wolfe Creek Crater,&nbsp;which resulted from a meteor crash over 120,000 years ago.&nbsp;Be sure to stop and camp at Stretch Lagoon too, which has a&nbsp;large waterhole that attracts a diverse species of birds.

SUNSET COAST
Thankfully, road trips around the WA are flexible in length.&nbsp;If you only have one day to spare, you can still enjoy the&nbsp;coastal sights of WA through the Sunset Coast route. Taking&nbsp;approximately two to three hours out of Perth, you can take&nbsp;a short drive along the West Coast Highway and tick off 19&nbsp;beaches. Begin your journey at Fremantle and head towards&nbsp;Cottesloe Beach, where you can stop for a coffee and enjoy&nbsp;one of the most well-known beaches in Perth. If time permits,&nbsp;take a dip in the sparkling waters.
Otherwise, continue your journey upwards, and take the West&nbsp;Coast Scenic Drive exit, where you can drive past Sunset&nbsp;Coast&rsquo;s protected bays and beaches. Stop at Mettams Pool and&nbsp;Sorrento Beach for gorgeous pictures to fill your Instagram&nbsp;feed with. Your journey will end at Mindarie, where you&rsquo;ll&nbsp;find Australia&rsquo;s largest man-made marina. Visit some cute&nbsp;restaurants, check out the local brewery for some drinks, and&nbsp;then head back to Perth for the day.

WARLU WAY
Enjoy the naturally occurring scapes and natural Aboriginal&nbsp;rock art on this 10-day Warlu Way road trip spanning nearly&nbsp;2,500km. The name was inspired by an ancient Aboriginal&nbsp;Dreamtime story&mdash;a term used to describe unique stories&nbsp;and beliefs of different Australian Aboriginal groups&mdash;of the&nbsp;warlu, a giant sea serpent.
Just like its namesake, the route is a meandering one that gifts&nbsp;you with picturesque sights of WA&rsquo;s natural scapes. The trail&nbsp;begins at Ningaloo Reef, with essential stops along the way,&nbsp;such as Karijini National Park for its spectacular gorges and&nbsp;clear rock pools and the Burrup Peninsula to see prehistoric&nbsp;rock engravings in the flesh, dating back 40,000 years.

SOUTH WEST EDGE
For an all-encompassing trip that covers the natural sights of&nbsp;WA and wine and dining, begin your journey at Perth and end&nbsp;it at Esperance with the South West Edge road trip. You can&nbsp;cover the journey in over 10 to 12 days at a leisurely pace.
Along the way, you&rsquo;ll pass notable destinations, including&nbsp;Elephant Rocks, where the naturally-formed boulders look&nbsp;almost like a herd of giant elephants submerged in water, and&nbsp;the Valley of the Giants, where you can take guided walks&nbsp;above the large red tingle trees. The South West Edge route&nbsp;also passes by natural spas and the Margaret River region,&nbsp;where you can stop by to sample excellent wines and food&nbsp;while taking a break from driving.

GIBB RIVER ROAD
The Gibb River Road trip is a historical one, initially created to&nbsp;drive cattle from Wyndham to Derby. Explore the same route&nbsp;on a four-wheel drive and marvel at the great WA outback&mdash;&nbsp;you can even stay at the cattle stations and experience what life&nbsp;was like back in the day.
Camp out at the marvellous Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge)&nbsp;National Park, where the mountain range was once an ancient&nbsp;coral reef. It&rsquo;s a wild adventure with freshwater crocodiles in&nbsp;the shallow rock pools, but make no mistake&mdash;the national&nbsp;park is a highly spiritual place for the Bunuba Aboriginal&nbsp;people, traditional owners of the area.
Other notable points of interest within the Gibb River Road&nbsp;route include the Drysdale River Station and the El Questro&nbsp;Wilderness Park. Note that this route can only be taken&nbsp;during Australia&rsquo;s northern &ldquo;dry&rdquo; season between April and&nbsp;October, as the wet season makes the roads impassable.

WILDFLOWER COUNTRY
We&rsquo;ve saved the most Instagrammable road trip for last because&nbsp;this is a trip that can only be taken in the spring&mdash;but it will&nbsp;be so worth it. North of Perth is WA&rsquo;s unofficial &ldquo;Wildflower&nbsp;Country&rdquo; that showcases the area&rsquo;s native wildflowers in full&nbsp;bloom, making great fodder for your social media.
On this six-day trip, begin your journey from Perth and&nbsp;head towards Dalwallinu, where you&rsquo;ll be able to catch bush&nbsp;cauliflowers and scarlet featherflowers at Watheroo National&nbsp;Park and yellow wattles in Dalwallinu itself. The next day,&nbsp;drive to Perenjori for pink, yellow, white everlastings, and&nbsp;native donkey orchids. Drive towards Mullewa on day three,&nbsp;and you can catch the wildflower-covered countryside from&nbsp;the top of Mingenew Hill. Be sure to explore Coalseam&nbsp;Conservation Park, one of WA&rsquo;s most iconic wildflower&nbsp;destinations.

On the fourth day, head towards Geraldton, where you can stop&nbsp;by the Bindoo Hill Nature Reserve for more flower viewing.&nbsp;Drive to Carnamah on day five, where you can see even more&nbsp;variety of native wildflowers along the Heritage Walk Trail,&nbsp;and then Green Head on day six. In your final stop, pay a visit&nbsp;to Coorow Farm, where you can view the native wildflowers&nbsp;in full bloom.
Everyone&rsquo;s idea of a road trip that&rsquo;s social media-worthy may&nbsp;be different, but one thing&rsquo;s for sure when you&rsquo;re exploring&nbsp;WA: you won&rsquo;t leave without having experienced some of the&nbsp;best sights in the natural world.&nbsp;

The Road Most Taken: 8 most Instagrammable road trips within Western Australia

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