Old Karungie Road / King River Road

I may be WAAAAAAAY out of date now, but I reckon both of those roads are on ElQuestro property. They tried to close the Pentercost to Diggers Rest one some years ago, but failed because it is a public road. The eastern one is not a public road, so they can and have closed it.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Hi Craig - The country around the Cockburn Range is definitely worth visiting.

The Karungie Track from Pentecost into Wyndham past Diggers Rest is part of El Questro from memory, but you can check access availability from the Diggers Rest Station through their website details:

Roderick and Alida Woodland
Diggers Rest Station
PO Box 5
Wyndham WA 6740

Phone: (08) 9161 1029
International: +61 8 9161 1029
Mobile: Roderick 0419 941 236 Alida 0418780337Def

They provide excellent treks around that area - the old fashioned way - on horseback for anyone who is interested.

Cheers - Phil

Drove it in 2016. Wyndham turnoff to Diggers Rest is public road, and then onto El Questro. There is a top and bottom track.....the bottom across the flats, and the top through the ranges when the bottom is not passable. Top is slower and a lot more rock to traverse.
Doable in a day if reasonable conditions. We stayed at Diggers Rest for a night. Small camp ground with hot showers.

Hi Phil, did it also in 2016. Coming from Wyndham end you can take a short cut across the mud flats to cut off a chunk of the corrugated road. The road for quite some distance follows the King River.There is an aboriginal art site on the track to Moochalabra Dam which is worth a look at. Next up is the Boab Prison Tree which is a seriously ancient tree.

We found the gate, just south of the prison tree, locked to the track that follows the King River down to the GRR. Not far past the turn off to Diggers Rest the track terminates at a gate that isn't locked and there is a sign that warns you about the Karunji Track and to travel it with care.

A pretty easy track to start with and would have been a doodle if we had stayed on the lower mudflats track but some how or another we missed a turn to the right and ended up on the upper range track. This track was fun with a number of interesting eroded sections and the odd section of rock and sand.

The track finally terminates at the Pentecost River fording on the GRR. This final section was the sandiest and softest section.

We started the track (passing through the gate) at 3:00pm so really late ion the day which didn't really allow us to smell the roses so to speak. We finally got to the GRR just after sunset, so being July about 5:30pm or so. Getting back to Kununurra at 7:00pm.

Fantastic drive and I wished we'd done it again last year but time didn't permit.

Enjoy the drive and take plenty of photos as there will be many an opportunity to do so.

Cheers

Dunc