Gibb River Road crossing advice please

Hi Cooks,

Did this road about two weeks ago and it was fine better than some of the sealed roads I’ve travelled. A couple of corrugated sections but these were only mild. The thing to watch out for on this road are the hidden dips, there’s a few of them and they can do damage.

If you were going up Mitchell Falls way, the road up via Drysdale isn’t to bad, however once on the track to Mitchell Falls its much rougher. If you were heading this way I would advise that you leave your camper at Drysdale as other seem to do.

Enjoy your trip!
Tommo

Hi Cooks

Friends travelled through towing off road caravan finishing trip over the weekend. They were travelling east to west, and found the eastern section the worst they have ever seen it and very slow going. They are used to travelling the rough outback routes. From the report above perhaps some work has been done there too. The western end was much better, and with a grader working, the final stretch from the Windjana-Tunnel Creek turnoff was freshly graded and smooth.

Anne from Drysdale River Station recently gave a report on the roads there.

Motherhen

Thanks for your reply guys, it gives us a bit more confidence now, we''ll see how we go!

We crossed the GRR towing a "dirt road" caravan and didn't have any problems. That was from 20 July to 1 Aug (we also went upto Mitchell Falls and Honeymoon Bay)
Could get up to about 75 kph in sections and down to around 40 kph in the rougher, deeper corrugated bits - they were evil and we thought that the van would be in pieces, but nothing dislodged.
River crossings were ok, but - yes those dips can sneak up on you and not all are signed.