Camping near Docker River on Great Central Road

Badly run down. Don't expect water or firewood and the fire pits will be full of ash. A sad state of affairs.

Docker River & the campground disappointment

Unless things have changed in the last 9 months (which I doubt), you are better off finding a spot a little off the road and well away from a community.


Cheers Mick

Hi Al-one

The camp ground near Kaltukatjara settlement at Docker River is in a grove of desert oaks with hills of the Petermann Range surrounding it, and the local community has set up honesty box camping with flush toilets and cold showers in tin sheds at each camp. However it has a history of vandalism. When we arrived we found the water supply no longer worked and the honesty box was smashed. This seems a common story. Our visit was in 2009 and we did not stay, although the location is lovely.

The settlement (and i presume the roadhouse is within the settlement) is a little way in from and not visible from the road. The campground was i recall about four kilometres west of the settlement access road and easily seen when passing on the GCR.

We were travelling east to west and continued on to Warakurna in WA as we had plenty of time, and wanted to stay at Warakurna overnight to do the Giles Weather Station tour in the morning.

For the next two nights we readily found good bush camping spots.

I have a blog of our GCR trip from 2008 in My Blogs.

Motherhen

In a word...........Yuk!

Do as a lot do including myself ---camp well off the track and enjoy the piece and quiet with the camels.

A lovely campsite wrecked by vandals.

I could not imagine though people traveling the GCR would be like that...but there must be the odd loser or three.

Stopped there in January this year. As above toilets were unusable, no water etc.

There was a large tour group camping there so I did stay the night but left as soon as light enough to drive.

Classic example of local jobs going begging through a lack of effort and too much gvt money