Australia's Golden Outback Holiday Planner 2025

THE OUTBACK WAY 4 days Unsealed roads

scenic nature reserves, waterholes, natural springs and caves. The route runs via Uluru, Alice Springs and Winton where you’ll learn about ancient Aboriginal culture, life in the outback, and the natural environment of Australia’s central desert. Visitors can enjoy searching for treasure boxes hidden along the world’s longest ‘Outback Way Geocache Trail’. This route is fast becoming one of the must-see and must do adventure drives. Permits are required.

Shires on your journey: Laverton Known as ‘Australia’s Longest Shortcut’, the 2,800km Outback Way offers an awe-inspiring journey through the red centre from the gold rush town of Laverton, Western Australia to Winton in Queensland. The Outback Way crosses central Australia through the Great Victoria Desert encountering vast salt lakes,

Mt Beadell

GUNBARREL HIGHWAY

6 days Unsealed roads Shires on your journey: Wiluna

Get ready to experience one of Australia’s most famous and challenging 4WD tracks and tell your friends you conquered the rugged and unforgiving Gunbarrel. Built by surveyor Len Beadell, this 1,400km outback adventure is perfect for the experienced and well prepared 4WD enthusiast. The route runs from Wiluna in WA’s Northern Goldfields to Yulara in the Northern Territory. Highlights include Giles Weather Station, Banjo Creek, Mt Beadell, Lasseter’s Cave and Docker River. You’ll find original bores and blaze trees along the trail, and keep an eye out for the interpretative plaques as well as wild camels and dingoes. Travelling with another vehicle is recommended and permits are required. campsites, including the man-made lake Niagara Dam. Tour the town of Kookynie, (the pub is well worth the stop) as well as old camps in the town of Gwalia, near Leonora, where the 31st United States President, Herbert Hoover, lived and worked. The linked Green Trail highlights sites in the Kambalda and Coolgardie areas with outstanding environmental, historical or cultural values such as beautiful woodlands and natural salt lakes.

Gunbarrel Highway

GOLDEN QUEST DISCOVERY TRAIL 6 days | Sealed and unsealed roads

which unearths the riches of the Goldfields’ 120-year old gold rush and showcases what is still one of the world’s biggest gold producing regions. The 96km trail leads you from the buzz of one of the largest open cut gold mines on earth, the Super Pit, to the striking beauty of artist Antony Gormley’s 51 steel statues on Lake Ballard. There are a number of beautiful nature reserves and

Shires on your journey: Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Menzies, Laverton, Leonora Travel from Kalgoorlie-Boulder on an amazing loop trail from Coolgardie to Laverton through incredible goldfields towns rich in heritage, history and charm. This is a true outback adventure

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