Friday, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:12
G'day,
This is our experience up that way.
Broken Hill; 2 caravan parks - the one on top of the
hill still had trees in October 2013, the one in town had lopped theirs right down, taking the shade away. From memory, there was no grass in the town CP, plenty of lawn in the other one. BUT, the sites are pretty much all on an incline in the one on top of the
hill. The one in town is flat.
Silverton is worth a visit, as is the Living Desert. The Miner's Memorial has great
views of
Broken Hill & a nice little cafe.
Silver City Hwy; I'd keep a very close eye on the weather before you go up that way in July. If it rain's I'd choose another route.
Apart from that - there is about 22km of dirt till you get to
Packsaddle (in 2 stretches) The rest is black top. Lunch at the roadhouse is pretty good!
From there it's all dirt!
Milparinka was a ghost town in Oct - no facilities whatsoever, but I've read things are happening there again?
Just a heads up; TJ's roadhouse is in
Tibooburra, some maps have it further down towards
Milparinka.
Plenty of facilities in
Tibooburra. The CP is clean & you book at TJ's. There is a nice new, clean, free BBQ around the back.
If you've taken caravans up the Silver City Hwy (I wouldn't, but others do!), you may as
well keep towing them, as the roads aren't particularly worse to Cameron Cnr &
Innamincka from
Tibooburra & they're most likely already covered in stone chips anyway.
At
Innamincka there are facilities, motel style rooms, or a "bunkhouse" (good value at $95 a night!) or you can
free camp on the town common.
The road from
Innamincka to the Qld border is only short, but it's a doozey! Lots & lots & lots of big rocks on the road!
From the border, it's bitumen. There is about 14km of very good dirt road into
the dig tree from the developmental road.
Another way up from
Tibooburra is along the
Warri Gate Road to the Noccundra pub - that is another rough road! The pub has nice clean Donga's or you can
camp on the riverbank for free. There are amenities out the front of the pub for a gold coin donation to the RFDS. The publicans are very nice people!
Continuing up the developmental road -
Eromanga, very quiet spot, lovely people in town! The pub is great & the CP is 4 powered sites behind the motel. It cost us $20 per night.
Next town -
Quilpie; we were stopped by the boys in blue for a breatho as we drove into town & the fuel pumps were padlocked! The
bakery was packed, but expensive! $8 for a pastie. We made sandwiches!
You turn north from there & I'll let others contribute that leg.
Good luck with it! I hope you have a great time up there, we did! :)
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