trailer to cape york

Probably need some more information on where you're going and what you are doing

The main road north on Cape York is OK for "The Kingswood" towing a trailer.
Just take it easy if it is corrugated.
I suggest that towing a trailer is a better proposition than an overloaded car.

The OTT is a different question, as is some of the side trips.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA106 motorhome

IMHO not a garden trailer. The RACQ blokein Coen makes fortune out of recovering broken tralers.
The bloke in Seisia also mainly fixes even off road trailers which were not well designed eg swingout tyre bracket breaking off.

A well designed off road trailer eg ex army fine.

Regards Philip A

Hi John

Last year we did the Cape trip and had an absolute ball and just wish we could have spent more time there.

Providing that your trailer is of solid construction and you drive to the conditions, it should be fine, but if it is not strong, please leave it at home.

The Peninsula Development Road is very busy and crazy all the time, and they say unbearable during school holidays, as when we crossed the Jardine River, the ferry operator said that there was a 4 hour wait to get across during the school holidays.

One thing that we found hard to follow up on first, was the actual road conditions, as you will read so much and get a number of different opinions from so many people.

For that very reason, I wrote another Blog, on our experience of Cape York last years, so if you open this link it will give you a better understanding on what the conditions are like and what some on the special places are to see.

Like I said above, take your time and try to spend as much time up there as you can, as when we did the trip last year, we took 7 weeks LSR and to be honest, it was far too short.

All the best and enjoy a great place that should be on everyone bucket list.



Cheers



Stephen

Hi John, can highly recommend Stephen’s blog on the cape, an excellent read, and full of great info.

As far as towing a trailer, we towed a 2.5t full off road van without too much trouble. We suffered one tyre sidewall split on the van, and the bolts holding the shockers to the suspension arm broke on one side. This is on a 2.8t rated Cruisemaster XT suspension system. Fortunately we carried spares and was able to do running repairs. So if your trailer does not have heavy duty full off road suspension or drawbar & hitch, I would leave it at home, or buy one that is suitable.

Macca.

No probs on the PDR especially if it’s an off-road trailer, people tow caravans up there. It was freshly graded when we were there, so like a dirt highway. We didn’t see any trailers on the Old Tellie Track, and I’d say you’d struggle at some of the crossings and would end up with a soggie trailer!