Plenty Highway

Peter, the Plenty and Donohue are generally well maintained but will be affected by weather as you would imagine. The channel country can be particularly susceptible. The NT side is generally speaking, a little better maintained than the QLD side. The bull dust patches have been largely taken care of. They used to be real bad around Tobermoray Station but work on the sections seems to have rectified this. Cattle mustering and trucking will affect road conditions (I think it's around April-May but check that).Check the respective shire websites for road conditions closer to your departure date and weather as well.

These blogs may help you.

The Plenty-Donohue to the Channel Country

Boulia Bedourie

Cheers Mick

Hi Peter,
I travelled the Plenty and Doohue Hwy's 6 weeks ago Alice, west to east. There are some good sections but a lot of corrugations and bulldust holes in between. Sections are having work done but I did not see any machinery around and looks like they have not been there for some time.
It rained one night and gave the last 200km's a soaking before Bulia, this did not seem to stop two triple cattle trucks, about 70km's between them, from trying to get though one one of the better sections, where they caused a fair bit of damage before getting badly bogged in the middle of the road.
Chris