Tanami

Tanami Road
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Section Affected
Between Tilmouth Well and Western Australian Border

Type of Restriction
High Clearance 4WD Only

Details of Restriction
Water Over Road

Comments
Motorists are advised to drive with care.

An alternative route, if the Tanami west of Rabbit Flat is not good, is to turn north at Tanami gold mine and go up through Lajemanu and Kalkarindji.

PROVIDED THE CONDITIONS ARE DRY, the drive is excellent.

You can get fuel at Kalkarindji and go to Halls Creek either from there or a bit further north at Top Springs.

G'day Qldrrr.
When you get to the abandoned station Mt. Doreen ruins, take a few pics for me. I lived there in 1957/8. Should still be few of my little plastic cowboys and indians in the dirt somewhere :-)

Fred.

2 weeks ago , we drove the 210km N.West tip of that road to Halls crk from Bililuna and it was closed at the time to Alice.

Lot of mud water ruts and holes , but it was then re-opened , then closed etc.

For us it was just to be a transport stage drive from Halls to Alice and we had allocated 2 days to get to Alice.

We choose the longer but surer route on main highway via Katherine.

At 2000km + it sure is longer but with 130km speed limit and no road issues
it turned out to be faster and easier and as I hadn't done it before, a few short tourists stops like Victoria river etc made it a good choice for us after beating up the car for 10 days on the Canning Stock Route.

It hasn't rained this way for about 2 weeks now so the roads should be drying out. Keep in mind that the mines need fuel so the roads will be opened as soon as they can and the graders will be on them also. People are travelling on the Tanami now.

Have spoken to Yuendumu, road open, graders are onto it, rough in areas.

If in doubt give Rabbit Flat a call or Yuendumu.

Cheers

Greg

Gday,
There was rain forecast for Wed, Thurs, and Friday and they have now forecast storms for tonight. Id play it by ear at this stage.

Cheers

I was in alice a fortnight ago when it re-opened and we dodged it and headed for Katherine. A guy behind us in the CP had come down it whilst it was closed. I heard two others talking who had as well. The WA end was not closed so they just kept on going over the WA border and into Tilmouth Well. Two 4wd's travelled together and had to assist each other with recoveries as well as coming across the bloke camped behind us who they had to recover as well. When it was opened it was opened to all traffic and we saw B-Doubles turning off out of Alice on our way past on the Saturday when it had opened on the Friday.

The guys I spoke to said that there were sections where the water was over the track for hundreds of meters. It should be all dried up by now but considering the damage that may have been done to it I reckon it would be fairly chopped up. Just my thoughts.

TJ...

No argument from me Wendys, but I think the problem is that no-one drives out to the WA Border from the NT end to put a sign up saying road closed. It is possible that people inadvertantly access the NT side if the track from WA thinking it's open.

TJ