Recommended camping spots

Anne-Marie,

Which way do you wish to go from Tom Price to Leonora?


Wayne

Get a copy of the publication 'Camps Australia Wide'. You can get it by ordering it through this site. Go to "Shop", and look for it.

You'll find it's the best investment that a traveller such as yourself can make.

Dick

Hiya girls, "Annie has to be in Mount Warning for a job"....hmm...she must be a National Parks Ranger ....
Can't think of much that requires that amount of dedication around Mt Warning....even in Mooh Bah they roll up the streets about 7pm LOL

Seriously, the advice re the camps book is spot on.
Have fun.

Dear Anne-Marie

Didn't you ask this question in a roundabout way a few threads back?

There is no definitive answer as there are not regulated campspots along your route. You either stay in caravan parks or you bush camp. You have to play it by ear(and sight)

Where and what is 'Ghan' on your route?

Moree would have to be a camp in a caravan park

You could have stopped over at my place on your way past but it will be just about the time we are entering the deserts out in the west...:-)

Cheers

Hi AM

While Camps Australia Wide is excellent for travelling, it does not cover outback tracks. Far better for WA and NT is the Jan Holland series; Priceless Campsites and Rest Areas - also available from the ExplorOz book shop. Even that is limited for outback tracks. She also includes a lot of tourism information which in some cases is better than brochures and websites. Get the set (of 3) as well as Camps 5.

We tend to use books are a back up - look for a nice spot be it gravel pit, bush track or old road, but now we don't panic if we don't find something good as the afternoon progresses, as we look up the books and check out the next lists places. In real outback areas, it is a matter of finding your own - usually quite easy in isolated areas. As said before, never near a town or settlement.

Don't forget you need separate permits for the WA and NT sides of the Great Central Road to Yulara - plenty of discussion on this recently (both road and permits). Your permits will specify you can only camp in authorised areas.

Mh

Hi Anne-Marie,

I am assuming you are running a GPS. We did the Anne Beadell and Leonora, Laverton, Meekathara, Willuna etc last year so have numerous camp sites markes with co-ords. Also I have the wpt files for the free campsites book mentioned if you would like it.

I havent forgotton about the pictures either, will email my site tomorrow sometime.

Cheers

Hi AnneMarie,
There are heaps of roadside spots that make for great camps but they dont show up in publications like Camps 5 (thank goodness!!! so they dont get crowded out). A couple that might be on your route that might help:

West of Newman there is a designated camp area at Mt Robinson (probably in the publications). Also a bit further east is Wanna Munna waterhole with some good petroglyphs. Turn north off the highway at 23deg 06.988'S and 119 deg 07.998'E and take the LH fork after a km or so.

On the Barrier highway north of Oodle Wirra and halfway between OW and Dawson (which is on a side road) the road takes a LH bend across a creek. Well used spot beside the probably dry creek. 32 deg 49.458'S and 139deg 02.353"E

There is a nice little van park at Orroroo pretty much at the end of the main street I think - but freezing cold when we were there last year! If there take a 5 minute detour out of town to see the big (enormous) river red gum.

North of Broken Hill near Little Gardiners Tank there is a track that takes you off the road a few hundred metres to the east of the road. Turn off at 31 deg 30.354"S and 141 deg 40.177'E

If before leaving on your trip you have a rough idea where you will end up each day you can have a look using Google earth and see if there are any tracks leading off to creeks, rivers etc. In outback areas there are seldom fences to get in the way so you can find some really good spots that way.

Have a great trip,

Val.