Road condition? Cape Crawford to Roper Bar

Hi Warstar

Maybe next year we too will go via the Savannah Way. Our (off-road) caravan has been through with its previous owner. A few years ago, the Savannah Way was heavily promoted, so an internet search will bring you us heaps of info to help you decide.

Motherhen

IT had heaps of corro,s from Nathen river to Roper about 100ks worth in October this year no good for a road van. But if and when the grader is there you are fine just pot luck check closer to when you leave A guy did it with his Jayco expanda offroad with no probs but it was shaking pretty hard. Cheers Tony

Warstar

Went that way in July 07

Road was OK but corrugated in places. The creek crossings were rocky and steep in places. The major rivers all have concrete causeways as you would know.

I saw a number of ordinary road vans being towed along the road but most travellers were not happy as their vans were not taking too kindly to the road conditions

It is up to you of you want to take your van on that road


Cheers

I was there in August 2008.
The first half is very corrugated and has many dips/creek crossings that cause a low average speed.
It was a bit better from Nathan river North where there had been a recent grader, but deteriorated again nearer to Roper Bar, like the curates egg.
When I was at Lorella springs there were two off road vans there but one had its microwave fall on the floor on the way in.
Regards Philip A

Warstar,

We planned to go via Roper Bar this year however as we had a Goldstream RV tandem axel offroad van with us and were advised at Borroloola the road was pretty rough we decided to go straight across to Daly Waters.
Probably a good move as the van destroyed its shocks on the Mitchell Falls road in any case.

We did it last year with a tandem axle off-road Phoenix. We were told at Cape Crawford that we wouldn't get the van through but spoke with someone else who had gone through without drama, so went ahead.

One beautiful section near Nathan river was being graded and the rest varied from bad to awful, but manageable at sensible speed and with lowered tyre pressures. It's probably always going to be such a mix. The Savannah name is just that: a name. It doesn't get special treatment because of the name - just more traffic damage from those who think they can fly across the top of the corrugations.

We met another Phoenix that had its fridge door fall off, a Bushtracker that had its microwave break loose and a slightly modified (wheels/suspension) road van (don't recall the brand) that had its sink tap fall off. Would have been no great drama but they had forgotten to turn the electrics off, hence the pump emptied their water tanks onto the benchtop which distributed it throughout the _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx, cupboards and beds. They looked a bit like Market Day with everything hanging on fences and trees in the sun.

Michael