It is located in the City of Armadale,[1][2] and part of the Jarrah Forest bioregion.

[3] Midgegooroo National Park was created as Class A reserve No.

47884 on 30 November 2004 with a size of 2,492 hectares (6,160 acres)[4]: 44  as one of nine national parks proclaimed in the state that day.

[5][6][7] 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.

[9] 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.