Birdsville to Innamincka to Tibooburra

Hi Kazbahr,

Just completed the opposite direction a couple of weeks ago. Take the Birdsville Developmental Road to the Planet Arabury Road, but don’t forget to check out the Rainbow Serpent, The Betoota Hotel, and Deons Lookout along the way.

Down the Planet Arabury Road a few kms to the turn off to Haddon Corner. The road out to Haddon Corner is in good condition. There are two sand ridges you will need to get over to get to the corner, but are easily doable, even towing a caravan.

Back to Planet Arabury road, turn right and continue until you come to a left onto Arabury Road. Both roads are in better condition than the Cordillo Downs Road. Follow the Arabury road to the end. Take a right out to The Dig Tree. $20 camping and day visit fee. This is a good spot to camp, drop toilet and bins, no dump point though.

After leaving The Burke & Wills Dig Tree, take a right, and follow this road into Innaminka. You can visit Burkes grave along the way, not far from Innaminka. You can camp on The Common at Innaminka. The Pub has good meals and a reasonable price.

Leaving Innaminka, you take the Strezlecki down towards Merty Merty, also stopping at Wills grave along the way, just out of Innaminka. Turn Left onto the Merty Merty/Cameron Corner road and continue out to Cameron Corner. Both these roads were in good condition. Camping at Cameron Corner is cheap for a bush camp, or you can camp in the camp ground with toilet and showers for a fee.

From Cameron Corner you take the road to Tibooburra. The first few kms were very badly corrugated, but once through the Bilby Habitat, it isn’t so bad. You can then take the scenic route which links up with the Toona Gate road, that then links back up to the Tibooburra road. This scenic route has some magnificent vistas from the top of the jump ups.

From Tibooburra it is bitumen all the way to Broken Hill. However, take the short side trip out to Milparinka, well worth a visit to this historic town.

Check these routes out on either Exploroz Traveller, Hema, or any good maps of the area.

Macca.

Its going to depend on the whether, and track conditions when you go. The old Strezlecky was a wonderful drive, sandy but nothing your van wont handle if its dry.
The road across to camerons is probably the worst road out there, lots of sand hills to cross, with blowouts on the eastern sides of the tops (potholes) make sure you drive it slow, plenty of head ons and broken suspensions along it.

Some recent relevant information on sections of the route in this thread

Birdsville to Cordillo Downs to Innamincka to Tibooburra to Camerons Corner to Mt Hopeless to Yunta to Broken Hill. Did this a month ago and all roads were in Good nick