Camping at Ayres rock

No Benny the fun police have not stopped camping there it's simply the fact that you're in the midst of a very precious National Park. Having said that you will find people pull over by the side of the road well before the park in between Mt Connor and Ayers Rock or if you want to drive down the road to Docker River from kata tjuta you may be able to find a place to pull off into the bush but again you will probably be at a gravel scrape or something similar.

People doing the wrong thing stop things
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-10/uluru-climb-closure-breaking-point-overflow-tourists-waste/11296256

We were about 3 weeks ago and without a booking camping at Yulara or the overflow was out of the question but has since changed as the school holidays have finished.

We camped at the ground behind the rest area 25 km out from Yulara free witn no amenities at all, the sign said 24 hr camping permitted.

Friends went there a week ago and the sign read something like no camping aboriginal land.

Seems they dont mind campers if they sell too many 25 dollar entry permits to the national park but if there is no profit for them it is sacred land again.

To answer your question yes camping at yulara is available and at a very reasonable price but wise to book. Climbing will be stopped mid october so could be busy with last chance climbers.

We didnt climb this time but did the segway tour, lots of fun and reasonably priced.

Last year we free camped 5 klms before the turn off into the resort area, 2 sand dunes back from the highway...heard this year it was a no go due to people crapping everywhere and leaving the place a pigsty. We were on resort owned land according to the security guards I spoke to one night that came around camp checking fires etc. Last year they were overwhelmed with how many people showed up to climb the rock before it’s closure, this year they expected the big numbers and planned for kicking them out in advance it appears.