Track between Marble Bar and Grt Northern Hwy

Sorry I meant also what is the quickest and best way across from Marble Bar to the Grt Northern Hwy? I would also like the names of the tracks/Roads if possible I have no GPS.
Thank you

Hi Deb

I think the Muccan Shay Gap Road /Boreline Road is the one you are thinking of.

A good alternative to the bitumen though would be cautious in inclement weather, otherwise easily traversable and maintained.

Cheers
Alan

G'day Deb
The road you seem to be searching for is the "Hillside/Woodstock" road, it is an all weather gravel road, currently being flogged to death by the mining industry.

This road brings you right to/past the beuatiful "Glenn Herring Gorge" the on through the Ironstone Range and onto the Great Northern Highway, around 95ks north of Munjina roadhouse and the Karijini National Park.

Safe Travels :

Hi Deb

We have been from Marble Bar north to the Great Northern Highway via the Boreline Road - a good and scenic dirt road, crossing the De Grey River with a shallow concrete crossing near Muccan Station. After a day in the heat of Marble Bar we jumped into the water to cool off :) The Boreline Road meets the Highway roughly 30 kilometres east of Pardoo RH. From reports from others since, the road is maintained.

Motherhen

Dirt Princess - The road you want is the Marble Bar-Hillside Road, it runs SW out of Marble Bar, passes the Comet Gold Mine, and crosses the Coongan and Shaw Rivers (along with quite a few big creeks in between).

The river crossings are O.K if it hasn't rained in recent times - and remember that an out-of season widespread thunderstorm can get them running.
You can keep up 80-90 kmh on most of the road. Watch out for livestock, this is station country, and it's unfenced, and there's wild donkeys in that area, too.

It's a basic dirt station road, and it can get windy and twisty in a number of places. It's on Google Maps, but the "Map" part of Google is way out on where the actual road is.
Go to Google, type in "Marble Bar", then click on "Satellite" and zoom in, and you can follow the road, it's clearly seen. You can also see where the "mapped" road and the actual road are often way out.

Some good pics here from other travellers -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northern_wanderer/5086631298/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86978295@N00/4799416502/in/photostream

Cheers - Ron.

We travelled the Marble Bar-Hillside Road last year and it was in good order and it appeared to be graded on a regular basis.
It took us around 3 hours to get from Marble Bar to the Grt Northern Hwy just north of Auski Roadhouse. We did stop along the way to take photos and grab a snack.
It had some great scenery along the way too. I just love it up that way.

On 15th October 2006 I escorted a truck with a D10 Dozer , I'm not sure if this is the track you need info on , if it is thr track to where he unloaded was quite good, I back tracked to Marble Bar after the job was done, the truck went on empty to Pardoo so if a truck and Float can get through there you should have no problems .

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Thanks everyone
Your responses are fantastic as always. I knew I would get the right answers here. I have the Camps 6 Astralia Wide, Gregory WA road map and Roads and Tracks Australia 2009 of which the latter seemed to be the better. It showed the road however not the ks or the corrigations etc. So your answers have been helpful. I will check with the locals when we arrive but just for the planning stage I have checked in with my team - you guys and girls out there who know this country through and through. And it's unanimous it is a good idea to do this track/road. I will update on the forum once I have completed the drive.
Cheers
Deb:)
PS. I will get a Hema map as this also seems to have the thumbs up with most people to. Thanks again.