black top Cairns to Darwin

The only way I can see you getting from Cairns to Darwin on the blacktop is down through Townsville, west onto the Flinders Hwy through Mount Isa continuing west on the Barkly Hwy until you hit the Stuart Hwy. And then north to Darwin.

Unless of course I am missing something here.....

Personally I would go the back way on the dirt but thats just me.

G'day Rick
I checked my Hema map, Cairns to Broome, and it appears that you can go from Cairns to Ravenshoe to Normanton down to Cloncurry and on to the Stuart Hwy to Darwin.

Safe travells
Jim-Bob.

Rick, the answer to your question is ...."Yes, you can", but my question is "Why would you want to?"

We drove across from 3 ways (about 700kms south of Darwin) to Cairns in August. We went through Boorooloola,Normanton,Croyden then down through the Atherton tablelands and Kuranda to CAirns. Most of the way was one lane bitumen. There was a part that wasn't tar not that it was particularly bad though. We towed an outback jayco and 3 kids and had plenty of whinging but no flats. It took us 5-6 days. It wasn't the most interesting of drives but certainly gave us an appreciation of the size of Australia. Coming down through the Atherton tablelands was very pretty and good 2 lane roads.

Did this trip in early march this year,to wet to go dirt,excluding concurry to mt isa saw about 50 vehicles all the way on way home 6 weeks ago passed that many in 200ks around bourke & wills roadhouse & proberly twice that number in the road house