MITCHELL PLATEAU .WA

The short answer GG is if they did, they shouldn't have :O. Caravans are no longer permitted on the Mitchell Plateau Road past the King Edward River campground, which is an ideal place to stay, and leave caravans for a day trip or overnight tenting at the Falls campground.

Mate notwithstanding the previous replies, there are some very deep, albeit dry, creek crossings at the Mitchell Falls end. These have very steep approach and departure angles so if your van has any sort of length to it, in all likelihood it would become a sort of permanent 'Bailey Bridge' structure spanning one of these deeper ravines anchored by gravity at either end with the wheels sitting in mid-air. Apart from being rather inconvenient for you it would also block the road.

In June I spoke with a guy in Kununurra who does RV repairs.

The Gibb alone is enough to cause grief. Shocks, springs, spring hangers, stub axles; structural welds in some cases. And labelling a trailer as offroad isn't enough.

We visited the area in August 2013. I realise it is some time ago, however based on comments here it would appear nothing much has changed. It seems that the road is "graded occasionally". You can see the grader, three large tractor tyres, somewhere near the beginning of the road.
Our group towed Tvans and although none suffered structural damage a number of shock absorbers needed replacement when we returned to Drysdale Station.
The road is severely corrugated. People approach it in two opposing ways. The first way is to keep tyres at blacktop pressures and drive like there is no tomorrow. The result is frequently vehicle damage. The alternative is to lower your tyre pressures and drive to the conditions.
Mitchell Plateau is definately worth a visit. Take the helicopter to the falls area in the morning and then take the rest of the day to walk and swim, there are about 4 swimming places, back to the camping area.
As you can gather from all the comments posted here take great care driving the road.

We saw a couple of mid-sized high quality off-road vans at the Mitchell Falls camp ground when we were there, but the vast majority of (sensible) people choose to leave their vans at either Drysdale Station or King Edward River, both of which are great spots for a bit of R&R.

Thanks all for you replies we are most likely going there at the end of June ,I paid a lot of money for my van so I better look after it and enjoy the caravan life with a little work.

Drive carefully and as the locals say " Beware Fritz in Britz"
well worth the trip despite the restrictions.
Ross

Better remove all the pics in Places from our 2010 trip to Mitchell Falls. Our Jayco Dove was legal then but now not so. See here: https://www.exploroz.com/places/14015/wa+mitchell-falls-road--port-warrender-rd
We could debate the merits of camper trailers vs well built vans of similar size which it seems the WA Parks have dismissed. What's going on up there. In 2005 vans were not allowed into the Bungles but in '13 we could. It's giving with one hand and taking with the other. The tracks are equally atrocious.
A bouquet to the forumite whose sage advice we followed on the Mitchell falls track. " Stop every 20 mins to give your passengers a break and your shocks time to cool down. We took 4 hours to do the 80 km with 2.5 hrs driving time at near 30 kmh. Front shocks on Pathy warm, rear hot and van shocks sizzling but survived the trip..... W