Shortcut from Walkers Crossing to Coongie Lakes - Is there one?

We have been out there twice and not found them.

Rob,

I can't see any shortcut tracks on that map, nor on any that I have.

Are you looking at a contour line, perhaps?

Cheers

I would bet that there are tracks. There are certainly ones marked on the 1:250,000 maps, HOWEVER even if they are navigable, the area is marked "Restricted access area …. private roads and tracks", so they are not accessible by the public.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

As Peter said they are marked on older maps, we used to use them before the Walkers crossing road was made which was before the regional reserve was created. Once the reserve was created if you could find them they were signposted as Peter said and have probably never been used since. If there had been any rain event between visits back then they were virtually untrafficable and detours had to be made.
Back in those days it was long before the days of GPS and you had to have a very good sense of direction, keep a close record of distances and compass direction and keep the previous years log for reference as apart from trees and the occasional sand hump it is fairly featureless terrain on the floodplains.
Lots of good fun had in times gone by and a sense of achievement when you arrived at your destination by basically dead reckoning having been "lost" for three or four days.
These days it is all crisscrossed by oil and gas roads and very dim view is taken by Parks and the oil mobs if you are caught off the allowed roads.

This map was posted on the forum back in 2014. It may no longer exist, and would probably be out of bounds to anyone but Santos workers anyway.
Cheers
John

There is a short cut but it is a private Santos road, and most probably gated. We were there last year, took the developement road from Birdsville to Innamincka then Congee. Seen the shortcut but was put off by the signs and potential to get lost