Boat ramps in Western Australia
We list 256 boat ramps in Western Australia. Recorded facilities: 52 with toilets, 167 with car or trailer parking.
Trailer parking is recorded at 133 of the 256 listed ramps in Western Australia, more than the 93 with car parking recorded. A lane count is recorded for 125 ramps, 55 of them with 2 lanes or more, and Ocean Reef boat ramp has the most, with 10 lanes.
Fees are rarely recorded. Launching is shown as free at 10 ramps, and nothing is known for the others. State government records cover part of the list and the rest is known only from OpenStreetMap. The WA Department of Transport also records 24 over-beach launching sites.
Mandurah, Albany and Broome have the most ramps among the councils. Augusta, Broome, Denham and Mandurah are the localities with the most. Toilets are recorded at some ramps, and a ramp with nothing recorded is unknown rather than lacking. Confirm ramp conditions and rules with the state authority before launching.
Highlights
Most launching lanes
- Woodman Point boat ramp 8 lanes
- Hillarys boat ramp 6 lanes
- Mary Street, Mandurah 6 lanes
- Port Geographe Marina public boat ramp 6 lanes
- Augusta Boat harbour 4 lanes
Most facilities recorded
- Deep Water Point 9 facilities
- Denham 8 facilities
- Leeuwin boat ramp, East Fremantle 8 facilities
- Hardey Park 7 facilities
- Kalbarri service jetty boat ramp 7 facilities
Facilities recorded at the ramp or mapped within 150 m.
Largest car parks
- Beadon Creek, Onslow 100 spaces
- Coral Bay boat ramp 100 spaces
- Derby 100 spaces
- Entrance Point 100 spaces
- Exmouth marina 5 knot speed limit 100 spaces
Parking spaces recorded by Transport for NSW, the WA Department of Transport or Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Ramps by local government area
| Mandurah | 17 | 3 | 15 | 4 |
| Albany | 15 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Broome | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Augusta Margaret River | 12 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
| Busselton | 11 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
| Karratha | 11 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Wyndham-East Kimberley | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Exmouth | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Gingin | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| Carnarvon | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Murray | 8 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| Rockingham | 8 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
| Capel | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shark Bay | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Greater Geraldton | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Harvey | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bunbury | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Denmark | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Northampton | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Coorow | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Dandaragan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Esperance | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Fremantle | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Irwin | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Manjimup | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Port Hedland | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Ashburton | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Bayswater | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Canning | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Derby-West Kimberley | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| East Pilbara | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joondalup | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Melville | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Ravensthorpe | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| South Perth | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Other areas (fewer than 3 ramps each) | 28 | 11 | 18 | 6 |
Click a column heading to sort. Counts are ramps with the item recorded in the source data.
Boat ramps near a town
Other boat ramps
- Boat ramp, Benjinup
- Boat ramp, Burswood (1)
- Boat ramp, Burswood (2)
- Boat ramp, Cardiff
- Boat ramp, Crawley
- Boat ramp, Drummond Cove (1)
- Boat ramp, EQ 62 2
- Boat ramp, Eneabba
- Boat ramp, Henderson
- Boat ramp, North Fremantle (1)
- Boat ramp, Perth
- Boat ramp, Trigg
- Boat ramp, West Leederville
- Bremer Bay
- Coronation Beach
- Fish Market Reserve
- Hardey Park
- Johnston Street boat ramp
- Leeuwin boat ramp, East Fremantle
- Marine Facility Bremer Bay
- Mindarie boat ramp
- Naval Base
- Naval Base Horse beach.
- Pickering Park
- Pratt St (Eaton Park)
- Preston Beach
- Two Rocks boat ramp
- Woodman Point boat ramp
Questions and answers
How many boat ramps are there in Western Australia?
Boat Ramp Spots lists 256 boat ramps in Western Australia: 52 with toilets recorded and 167 with parking recorded.
Which boat ramp in Western Australia has the most launching lanes?
Woodman Point boat ramp, with 8 launching lanes recorded.
Do I have to pay to launch a boat in Western Australia?
Free launching at 10 ramps. For the other ramps no fee information is recorded.
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