Broome to Cape Leveque

Greg

Allow the best part of a day. The road varied from reasonable to fairly corrugated last year. It will depend upon when it gets graded V when you go but we were there around the same time.

Around about the last half of it is bitumen

When we drove it in late 2010,some of the beginning was tare and if I remember correctly right at the end but all the roads/tracks leading to any communities were dirt, it was very corrugated and I flogged out some bushes coming back but they were stuffed anyway LOL!
Have a blast you will love it.

Cheers John.

Hi Greg : I think it took us about half a day & one of us was towing pop top van x 2 campers , The dirt part of this road is much like any other out back road .
Its sure worth the trip in there , hope you enjoy it .

Hi Greg. Road is ordinary at the moment lots of corrugations, my daughter lives at one arm and travels the road regulary. Dont let that stop you just lower tyre pressures,i usually go to 25 psi in van and tow vechicle. The dirt section about 86 klms from memory will take up to two hours plus letting down and reinflating tyres etc. Lots of good campsites along the way if you have time.
cheers Graeme.

Greg,

I can give an eyewitness account in about three to four weeks.
After traveling the GRR and reaching Broome, we plan to spend 4 days at Middle Lagoon and travel up to the top while on the Cape.

There is an alternative if coming from the east, there is a track called the colourstone track, on some maps as Mount Jowleenga rd, it runs off the hwy about 35 kms east of the Fitzroy River and meets the Cape Leveque Rd near Beagle Bay, it is a sandy 2 wheel track no good for caravans but we did it with a camper trailer no worries, there was a swampy bit but a detour around it, it is a short cut and no real difficulty.Check it out.

HF

Be very careful travelling the Mt Jowleenga Road from Derby to Cape Leveque. The road was fine in 2009 but after heavy rain it became almost impassable. We travel to Middle Lagoon every year and since that year we have had shocking reports of people in Offroad vans becoming bogged and taking hours to get through. If you are travelling with someone else you should be ok, make sure you don't take the wrong tracks and make sure you do it early in morning. Do not attempt it if it has rained recently. We had people arriving at midnight at Middlelagoon because they became bogged and lost!!!! The road is not maintained and is very isolated. The road from Broome, is rough, we do it in an off road van. Leave early in the morning, drop tyre pressures and stop and check the vehicles constantly. It takes about 21/4 hours to do the dirt from end of bitumen at Broome to Beagle Bay bitumen, then another 1/1/4 to do dirt to Middle Lagoon. If you head straight up the highway it is bitumen to the top.