Chilli Beach Cape York

This is taken from the cook shire website - road condition listing

Road conditions

19. Area Portland Road (including Chilli Beach)
Road Name: Portland Road
Current Status:
Portland Road to Cooks Hut is open to all traffic. Large 4WD vehicles recommended, road in poor condition. East of Cooks Hut is closed to ALL traffic - local residents excepted. No permits will be given and no exemptions made.
General Description: Poor condition. Road severly damaged east of Cook's Hut.
Any tourists found east of this point will be prosecuted.

Road Status: OPEN - with restrictions.
Repair Timeframe: unknown.
Contact: Cook Shire Council
Contact Number: (07) 4069 5444

Was up there in early July & road was pretty chopped up but passable.
You do camp in national parks.
We took the road in from just North of Archer river. Where told by the rangers at the time that the Frenchmans Road was a mess with the Pascoe river crossing being very deep but possible to cross. The main problem though was out near the Development road where apparently some of the bog holes where very treacherous and could take all day to get through using recovery gear etc, plus you would need more than one vehicle apparently
Good Luck

Thanks guys. Looks like we might give it a miss this time round being that we will be travelling alone and will have the fury children with us! Plenty to see elsewhere. Save it for next time.

Phill