normanton - booraloola road

Bill,
I can only offer a limited report as we came from Booraloola to the Kingfisher Camp turnoff in mid July. I would say you would have no problems for that part of the trip as long as you drove to the conditions. If you were considering going on to King Ash Bay from Booraloola you would find it rather more corrugated than the road into Booralooa. However there were plenty of normal road vans in there although there was only 20klm of rough.

Hope this is of some help,
Cheers,
Al-one

Hi Bill,
Pat and I travelled this road in June this year and found it quite O.K. We have a Phoenix off road and a cruiser with a custom boat loader on top and the whole rig performed well. We tracked Normanton to Cape Crawford, (nice stopover) and then up to Booraloola, you will not have any problems. There are plenty of places to camp off road,we found a large gravel pit which was great but did not keep the co-ordinates. Have a great trip, if you come thru Gladstone give me a call.
Cheers, Nev.

Gday Bill,

I am pretty sure my mate travelled this route in June of this year and he encountered a few drama's. He reported it to be very rough and had to carry out a few repairs when he got to Darwin. Somehow he managed to severe all his wiring to his camper trailer and his handbrake line I believe. He said there were numerous sizeable rocks on the road and these were just peppering his trailer and underbody of the cruiser.

Mind you knowing my mate he would not neccessarily have been driving to the conditions.

He did say he loved every minute of it though!