Plenty Highway

Drove it 2 weeks ago....first 70klms of Donohue is bitumin, rest to the border is in pretty good condition with the odd short bitumin stretch thrown in sporadically. Cross the border and the road immediately deteriorated, from there to Jervious is the worst part of the run...large bull dust holes / longish stretches of bulldust you need to pick a line through and just commit to, and some ordinary corrugated sections (standard Plenty Hwy type stuff)...that section constantly changes from less then average to pretty good, the minute you get used to the good bits it turns corrugated, get used to the corrugated bits and it becomes good again. Towing a caravan wouldn’t be great through there, not towing anything with tyres deflate sufficiently it would be not that bad really.
From Jervois to Hart’s Range was in pretty good condition...there’s maybe 5 or so klms of roadworks as you leave Hart’s Range, they’ve dozed a track parallel with the roadworks through the scrub that is 60kph speed limit, after that it’s bitumin to Stuart Hwy.

Also did it recently, Gemtree to Winton on July 4th . . . the bulldust sections were sometimes rright across the road and perhaps 10 - 15 metres in length.
Making that worse, there were many road trains, and virtually had to slow to a crawl or stop as the dust was just impossible to see through it in early light, and with virtually no wind the dust hung around for a good 10 - 15 mins.

Was a good drive though, left Gemtree 0530 and arr Winton at 2000.
If doing any night driving, Boulia to Winton had plenty of roos and cattle . . . in fact we saw more roos on the Donahue and Hennedy Dev Rd, than the whole previous ~ 9900km from leaving Adelaide put together.

Thanks guys. Appreciate the info. Heading out there tomorrow.

Just watch out comming over a few cattle grids...one in particular 2 weeks back had a big nasty bulldust hole on the Eastern side of it, you wouldn’t see it until way to late as it was on a downhill slope. This was back towards Jervious end of the Plenty somewhere

We crossed the Plenty highway without incident. Coming from west to east, from Harts Range to the Queensland border was ordinary at best. But it was nowhere near as bad as some of the reports we had been given from travelers at various caravan parks. The reports provided here were much more accurate. There were corrugations, patches of bulldust and lots of rocks but all were manageable by driving steady and common sense when passing oncoming traffic. Thanks for the advice guys.