AGO Holiday Planner 2026

Kalgoorlie & the Goldfields

BEST TIME TO VISIT JULY - OCTOBER

DESTINATIONS LAVERTON

HIGHLIGHTS YEO HOMESTEAD

To Halls Creek

To Ayers Rock & Alice Springs

DUNDAS COACH ROAD/OLD COACH ROAD ANNE BEADELL HIGHWAY

Carnegie Station

Warburton

Wiluna

FIVE TO SEVEN DAYS ON UNSEALED 4WD ONLY ROADS

Traversing remote desert areas from Laverton in the Northern Goldfields to Coober Pedy in South Australia, this is one of Australia’s longest and most remote roads, stretching 1,350km. This track is often inaccessible or closed due to weather events, so please check with the Great Beyond Visitor Centre in Laverton before setting out, carrying your own fuel and drinking water for the full trip is also essential. On track Surveyor Len Beadell often described as “the last true Australian explorer”, named this sandy outback track after his wife, Anne, and built it over a period of nine years from 1953 to 1962. Driving the Anne Beadell requires preparation, experience and travelling with another vehicle is recommended. Permits are essential.

To Cooper Pedy

Laverton

Tough terrain Watch as the arid scrub terrain slowly changes from clay pans and salt lakes to red sand dunes. Unexpected sights on the trail include the wreck of an old aircraft. Some of the rarely used tracks can be narrow, twisty and sandy. Yeo Lake Homestead in the Great Victoria Desert offers basic camping.

IMAGES From the Anne Beadell Highway.

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HOLIDAY PLANNER 2026