Route from Leigh Creek to Oodnadatta?

First Trek is the Flinders Ranges up to Arkaroola Village. Was planning on coming back down to Leigh Creek and somehow crossing over to Oodnadatta.

I'm having a difficult time piecing together treks from this Site. We have 20 days and there are 6 or 7 treks that I would like to do through the Flinders, and then over to Uluru, but there is no easy way to combine the different treks from the web site. Maybe I am not using this web site correctly, but I would love to just input all the different treks we want to do and then have it spit out a map combining all. (o:

Just get the RAA map for Flinders Ranges and The Outback, it will be fine for what you want to achieve and then the NT maps they can also provide as they cover all the tracks you want to possibly drive. There's some excellent information on the Oodnadatta track including a great CD. Time of year means it will be hot

Depends on what you want to do in the Flinders Ranges as there is plenty of private tracks. Our suggestion would be; stay at Rawnsley Park and do their tracks, head up to Blinman and do Arkapeena Scenic Adventure, Mt Buggary Gorge and Stirrup Iron Range, then up to Warraweena for a few days to do their tracks. That alone will soak up around 5-7 days

Stay at Maree then Coward Springs on the Oodnadatta Track. A flight over Lake Eyre and the Secret Painted Hills on Anna Ck station by our favourite airnline, Wright Air at William Ck. Lunch at the pub is excellent with one of the best burgers around

Along the way there are mound springs and sites where the original Ghan railway went and all are really worth the visit. Tyre pressures around 26 psi and speed around 80-90

Regards

Rob

Hate to sound stupid but "RAA"? I'm not sure what that is. I do have Australia maps but it is very hard to buy maps where I am so I was going to wait until we got to Adelaide to buy the more local maps. Do they have actual maps of 4WD treks? That would be wonderful!

We basically just want to drive around and soak up the scenery, watch the birds, and mingle with local folks to learn everything we can about Australia. We are very casual travelers in that we don't like staying in the big cities and we don't like doing the "touristy" things. We like nature and history.

Thanks for your suggestions - they will come in handy!

Cheers!

Stacie

Please ignore the RAA part of my reply - I just Googled it. (o:

Those are great! Will be ordering it today. Thank you!

Thanks Boobook! We are renting a 4WD camper so most of what we will do is camping until the other half wants a hotel room. :o)

We are starting in Adelaide and going down to Kangaroo Island for 2 days. Then back up to Adelaide for one night to get supplies. From there I started out with the Flinders Ranges trek. There are several treks that are offshoots on the Flinders Ranges. We are going all the way north to Arkaroola so maybe we should just head west from Arkaroola and over to Uluru, then to Coober Pedy and the Painted Desert. Argh! So much planning. But I've got three months to get all the treks down and I'm pretty sure we can cover a lot of ground in 20 days just staying in SA.

Boyfriend is an avid birder and I am an avid photographer so we work well together.

Any recommendations from you would be wonderful. This is my first trip to Australia and it's been a lifelong dream of mine to travel the Outback in this fashion.

Hi Stacie

It sounds like a great trip, but you are underestimating Kangaroo Island. To be very honest you will see nothing in that time. Give it some more thought and try and make it a lot longer.

If you want to see what the Island has to offer, have a read of the couple of Blogs that I have written on KI.



Cheers


Stephen

That was a great blog - and yes, a perfect solution to my dilemma! Thank you so much!

Cheers,

Stacie

Hi

I would phone Rod Savage at Mulgaria.

I spoke with him a while ago and there is no access through this route

Ph Number 08 86727007

Good Luck

Cheers Teza

Thank you mikehzz - have looked into the Oodnadatta Track. I've got a little over 2 months to plan these treks out so I've still got a little bit of time.

Thanks to all who helped!

StacieJ