Condingup borders Cape Le Grand National Park in the south.

A second townsite, Wharton, is located in the south of Condingup, on the shore of the Duke of Orleans Bay.

[5] Its name is thought to be derived from the Aboriginal word Kunjinup, a local wildflower.

[6] From the 1950s to the 1970s a range of celebrities owned property in the area including Art Linkletter, Anne Baxter and Rhonda Fleming.

[7] The Coolinup Nature Reserve was gazetted on 18 December 1964, has a size of 2.16 square kilometres (0.83 sq mi) and is located in the Esperance Plains bioregion.