Tharomindah to the Dig Tree

The road from Thargomindah/Noccundra to the Dig Tree turn off is sealed all the way, from the turn off to the DT is approx 14ks and not sealed.
There is good camping on the River Bank in front of the Hotel, your van would be safe there.
You should be able to do a return trip in a day easy.
baz

Take the van and spend a day or two at the Dig Tree area (if you can), the road is very good!

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

Watch out for oill and gas industry traffic. Road trains etc. Most company 4x4's now drive with headlights on all the time.

Single lane road, pull off the road and stop and let whatever is coming the other way pass. Or if someone pulls off the road for you, then stay on the bitumen.

We get so many people who drop 2 wheels off the side of the road, especially not slowing down and throw rocks all over the place, damaging windscreens and worse.

Hi Brad,

If you do decide to leave your van at Noccundra, you can leave it at the Wilson River free camp, or if you are a bit worried about security, the pub has a small van park at the rear which should be secure.

Gday

We travelled home that way a few weeks ago. After 7 weeks away we punched home from Innamincka to Ballina NSW with an overnight stop at Cunnamulla.

As others have said its virtually all sealed now, with very little traffic. My only advice is to watch out for emus around Thargomindah especially. The amount of road kills was incredible.

Cheers
Craig & EJ

Hi Brad & Jenny,

I can only re-iterate what others have already said.

We did this trip October 2012, left Thargo 9am or thereabouts towing our 4WD camper trailer & got to Innamincka around 2pm sitting on around 90kms per hour. We stopped 2-3 to stretch our legs & let the kids run around a little. Didn't stop at Noccundra, we did that on the way back. I saw one previous reply that mentioned large trucks, our experience was we saw only 2 or 3 in total. We just closed down & moved out of their way. You can see the road either way for miles & miles so it's not as if they sneek up on you!

Not sure if it's changed but back then there was 22kms of unsealed road which ended 20 or so kms from the Dig Tree turn off. It's probably no coincidence that the dirt stretch was beyond the furtherest oil well.

The 13kms from the SA Border to Innamincka is corrugated but take your time & visit Innamicka if you can.

Just letting people know that on the 1st Setember there will be about 350 motorbikes camped at the Noccundra Pub the starting point for the annual Poker Run charity ride to raise money for Spinabita , keep an eye out for us John