Tanami Track
The Tanami Track goes through the Tanami Desert and is a shortcut between the Kimberly Region and Alice Springs instead going all the way along the Victoria Highway and Stuart Highway via Katherine.
The Track can be used with a well-prepared 2WD driven with care. Like all Gravel Roads, the track can be impassable or very hard to go after rainfall. Because of the Tanami Mines north west of Alice Springs the track is usually well graded in the Northern Territory but may be rough in Western Australia.
There are only a very few places of interest along the Tanami Track. The Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Western Australia can be reached via an about 25 km long trip from the track. Another point of interest are the Tanami and Granites Gold Mines, but there's no public access. Otherwise there is a lot of landscape with spinifex, numerous termite hills and some ridges.
The distances are enormous. It is strongly recommended to bring enough petrol and drinking water with you. There are only a very few possibilities to fill them up. Rabbit Flat Roadhouse is open from Friday to Monday only, so that the longest stretch without fuel can be nearly 900 km.
