Great Central Highway

Hi Richard and Leonie

A thread search brought up a few i could see from March/April and there may be more recent as the Search does not sort in date order for me.Great Central Road

Member Tjukayirla Roadhouse posts reports here when something out that way changes.

Rain can close the road, and has done so a few times over the past months.

An good off roader built to stand up to long and often corrugated roads will get through OK. The worst part is usually the NT side, and a week or so after grading it is little different to before grading.

My Blog on the Great Central Road 2008 has some of the things to see along the way without taking diversions to other features which we missed as we were on our way home.

Motherhen

G'day Richard and Leonie, We actually keep the road conditions updated fairly regularly on this website, under the treks/ road conditions/ tab. We also keep our own website tjukayirlaroadhouse.com.au up to date with current info.
Also, as Motherhen said, if anything changes drastically, we try and update on the forum here.
At the moment the road is in great condition with just a few corrugated sections, with the worse part being the docker River to Kata Tjuta section as usual. We are getting caravans through everyday at the moment, with no problems.
Drop in and say g'day and have a cuppa when you come through.
Cheers
Al

doneit last week in my hilux ;road reasonably good; but keep your speed down;there is a lot off ball bearing type gravel;saw a roll over near warburton ;some aboriginals involved;if you look at some off their vehicles and the way they are driven you can understand why;if you want to gotoo lasseters cave look for a sign that says rest area ;if you can take a photo of the protection cages around the fuel pumps on the gch and put it on this site ;would be good ;called in at the tjukayiria roadhouse for few goodies;lovely lady there i wanted too camp the night but was having a mechanical problem so had too keep going;make sure you call in and mention exploroz ;highest price for deisel was 230 or 240 at warburton then down too 180 at yulara up too 190 on the stuart hwy until alice not sure what that was now maybe between 160 and 170;if you want too visit giles weather station the tour starts at 815 if their is an afternoon tour you have too ring them ;i do not think there would be any problem too take your; van the road is under repair in a few places ;if there was too be a lot of rain could it could get a little slippery if you have any more queries i could be offsite for afew days ;enjoy the trip its wonderful bye barry

Richard and Leonie,

I don't have any recent up dates, but i can tell you we drove it last November without any problems. the worst of the corrogation is around Dokar river. During our time, we encountered some rain which made the track a tad slippery, but still open at that time. my son and I wrote an account of our trip in the blogs section called 'across Australia off the cuff'.
Now before we went in November, My old man had driven across it in September/October with a caravan being pulled by a '97 Nissan Patrol. No problems.

Have a great trip!
John

We are heading off too - on the 1st of August to do it and then up to the bungles and on to broome

drove the bit from laverton to warburton 3 weeks ago not towing. saw quite alot of vans. the bit from laverton to tjurkilya rh was in good condition. the bit between tjurkilya and warburton was ok too except for one bit closer to warburton that was very corrugated. however the grader was in the area so this bit is probably ok by now.

wizzer