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Load the car and hit the road, a driving holiday in the Northern Territory has all the elements of a great Australian road trip.
Whether you want to go off road or on an outback Australia holiday, grab a map to explore your options in the NT. A driving holiday in the Northern Territory gives you the freedom and flexibility to explore at your own pace. There are five recognised themed drives in the Northern Territory, the Explorer’s Way, Savannah Way, Red Centre Way, Overlander’s Way and Nature’s Way, and each has its own story.
It also has countless four wheel drive tracks that snake through its various scenic landscapes. The Binns track is the latest four wheel drive challenge, a seven-day adventure from Mount Dare in South Australia to Timber Creek. Not for the faint hearted, the track traverses 8-metre high sand ridges, rocky escarpment country and boggy marshes. A driving holiday in the Northern Territory will link you to many of Australia’s best-known icons and give you the opportunity to explore lesser-known natural and cultural wonders of Australia's outback.
Did you know?
Rare Acacia Peuce trees are found in the Mac Clark Conservation Reserve, south west of Alice Springs, one of only two locations in the world. Keep an eye out for them when travelling along the Binns Track.
You can fossick for garnets in the Hale River at Ruby Gap. These garnets where originally mistaken for rubies, hence the name.
The Explorer’s Way follows the same route travelled by famous explorer John McDouall Stuart in 1861, on his sixth and final expedition north.
You can read inscriptions from last century’s explorers at Chambers Pillar, a sandstone column that towers 50 metres above the desert floor south of Alice Springs.
Drive through Kakadu National Park and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, one of only a few places in the world to be included on the World Heritage List for two reasons - both its natural and cultural values.
