camping at Alice Springs

Well you don't camp in the Alice as such. You stay in formal accommodation facilities, such as caravan parks. As for safety.... Only an issue after dark.... If you are back in your digs by night, you'll probably be unaware of any 'local troubles'. Never been a worry the many times we've been there. A great place and region to visit.

As Darian says, stay in a decent caravan park and use commensense if you go out at night and you wont have any trouble. We usually stay at the MacDonnell Range CP (Big 4 I think) but there are others as well. Alice Springs, Darwin and Broome are about the only places where we would stay in a CP as a matter of course - the rest of the time we bush camp and have never had any problems.

Cheers,

Val

Interesting to hear this. I will be there next Easter camping. Me and maybe another five hundred more with our nationals occuring there. Might need to start looking at accomodation now.

Hi Katz

We loved the environment our of town a little way at the rather basic but priced to match Temple Bar CP. VERY safe and secure a few kilometres out of town. The following year we arrived at show weekend were devastated to find our chosen park fully booked, and had to get into a crowded in town park and hated it, but no security problems at all. There is now another small CP nearby - Wanngardi.Check out Badger's NT reviews for reveiws of Aliice Springs CPs. We also spent a few weeks camping in the East and West MacDonnell Ranges, Palm, Valley, Kings Canyon, Uluru and Chambers Pillar. All good and safe.

Obviously, don't let the children roam free along the Todd River bed in town on a Friday night.

Motherhen

Katz : Its not just at night that you need to careful of your safety .... wrong place at the wrong time in Alice springs.... I'm an ex Alice springs resident & i'm not trying to put you off , Its a great place to live or visit but just remember the stories ....
I would be on my guard in the CBD any time of the day .

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-03/alice-springs-rape-arrest-and-follow/3987182

I would just stay in one of the main caravan parks in town if I were you then all will be good.

We have just returned from our trip to the Outback including Alice and we stayed at the G'day mate park excellent park very clean and super friendly and a hell of alot cheaper then the big 4 over the road for a powered site we paid $30 at g'day mate and over the road was $48.

We also found that the "locals" didn't really take notice of you, not once did I feel unsafe and we also walked to and from the pub down the road for dinner no problems at all.

On our way up to the Kimberley in 2010, i stopped over in Alice for one night.

Stayed at the Swagmans Rest Apartments with internal 'secure' carparking.

I went to bed very late, and woke a few times through the night to look out at our vehicle parked less then 2m from my beside window.

Upon waking at first light i went outside to see the ratchet tie down straps over our gear in the ute tray had been set on fire and all of our stuff had been opened, and rummaged through. (Instead of undoing the straps, they just set them on fire so the straps burnt through and fell to the ground).

Nothing was taken, even through they seemed to have opened every single container / bag zip in our load. Obviously, IMO they were just looking for alcohol.

As i looked around the carpark, i noticed every single ute or vehicle with stuff on its roof, had the lids open, stuff on the ground etc.

I dropped into the police station on my way out just to let them know... Bloke was apologetic but said basically if all i lost was some tie downs (mind you over a hundred dollars worth) then i was very lucky.

Travis.