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FREE MAPS L XP RE• ••E • THE RED CENTRE VISITOR GUIDE Pyndan Camel Tracks - Alice Springs www.exploreoz.com.auwww.exploreoz.com.au 1 CONTENTS PAGE ALICE SPRINGS 33 - 91 Accommodation 50 - 56 Art Culture & Museums 83 - 87 Attractions 40 - 49 Dining, Café’s & Takeaway 76 - 79 Events 74 - 75 History Walk 72 - 73 Seniors Discount offers 49 Shopping & services 80 - 82 Suggested Itinerary 64 Vehicle Hire & Auto Services 88 - 91 COOBER PEDY 8 - 15 Events 8 History Trail 13 Suggested Itinerary 15 MAPS Alice Springs CBD / Town Centre Alice Springs – South of The Gap Centre Barkly Region 110 Coober Pedy Town 10 - 11 East MacDonnell Ranges 102 - 103 Explorers Way 6 - 7 Red Centre Way 94 - 95 Regional – Central Australia Centre South East Alice Springs 29 Tennant Creek 116 - 117 West MacDonnell Ranges 94 - 100 Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park 24 Yulara Resort 22 SELF DRIVES Binns Track 101 - 105 Explorers Way 6 - 7 Outback Way 120 Red Centre Way 94 - 100 TENNANT CREEK 112 - 119 Events 115 Suggested Itinerary 113 ULURU KATA TJUTA 18 - 26 WATARRKA / KINGS CANYON 27 ADVERTISERS DIRECTORY / DISTANCE GRID 122 - 123 2 Explore The Red Centre www.exploreoz.com.au 3 TO DARWIN: 965km BARKLY EXPLORE THE THREEWAYS 186 HWY 25 COOBER PEDY TO TENNANT CREEK Barkly RED CENTRE Roadhouse Police 125 Exploring the Red Centre is your unique TENNANT CREEK 114 experience, where the colours inspire, 0 50 100 150 km Wutunugurra adventures beckon, where you seek 117 something different. DEVILS MARBLES HOTEL 18 Road - Sealed WYCLIFFE WELL Iytwelepenty Road - Unsealed Imangara 125 Track (4WD) - Davenport HWY BINNS Ranges Red Centre Way EXPLORERS National Binns Track 72 105 TRACK Mt Sonder WAY Park Outback Way 110 Explorer’s Way BARROW CREEK It won’t matter if you travel from the south heading north, or vice Accomodation Ampilatwatja versa, or even where you start your journey in the Red Centre. Your 89 Caravan Park STUART time in the heart of Australia will leave a lasting impact on yours. Police RAILWAYArlparra Camping TI-TREE 224 Follow these pages for the adventure of a lifetime! If this is a visit TANAMI Woodgreen HWY 61 to just one part of this region, it will not be long before you feel that General Store Conservation Boxhole Dulcie Reserve Meteorite Range National yearning to return. Then back to where the pace is easy, the open Meals AILERON Crater SANDOVER Park spaces are huge and the night skies are never ending. Tilmouth Well 70 HWY Fuel Gemtree PLENTY ROAD Explore: Coober Pedy - Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park - 134 147 Atitjere OUBACK Police 113 (Harts Range) Alice Springs - Tennant Creek - and so many places in-between. Police Tjoritja WAY West MacDonnell 187 Medical Facility Arltunga Hist.Reserve National Park Ormiston 111 Ruby Gap Gorge Serpentine Standley ALICE SPRINGS Nature Park WEST MACDONNELL RANGES NAMATJIRA Gorge Chasm 155 LOOP DRIVE Police DRIVE EAST MACDONNELL RANGES 165 A MEREENIE LARAPINT Kings Hermannsburg 80 Santa Teresa Finke Gorge 92 (Ltyentye Purte) Watarrka Canyon Nat. Park Rainbow Valley BINNS National LURITJA Henbury Park Meteorites STUARTS WELL ROADHOUSE TRACK 100 198 RED CENTRE ROAD WAY 67 108 Northern The Breakaways Uluru Chamber's OLD GHANTerritory Yulara LASSETER HWYERLDUNDA Pillar 247 OUBACK 194 Uluru WAY 75 Uluru-Kata Tjuta Finke National Park Police 140 AUSTRALIA KULGERA 146 Pukatja Mount Dare (Ernabella) Hotel South 180 247 Witjira CENTRAL Australia Alice Springs Ellery Big Hole National Kaltjiti Park (Fregon) RAILWAY MOBILE NETWORK Police 205 MARLA COVERAGE ADATT Mintabie ODN A Coverage is limited STUART O 81 Oodnadatta from the outskirts of Painted 50 TRACK most outback towns. Desert CADNEY PARK 120 Download all maps, guides, fact sheets, HWY 142 audio guides while you 153 Tallaringa EXPLORERS have mobile coverage. Conservation WAY Police Park Look for Wi-Fi hotspots ANNE HWY located in more remote BEADELL COOBER PEDY Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles tourist sites. TO PORT AUGUSTA: 542km 4 Explore The Red Centre Base mapwww.exploreoz.com.au and data © Custom Mapping Services,5 2021 www.custommappingservices.com.au EXPLORERS WAY THE STUART HIGHWAY ADELAIDE TO DARWIN 3030KMS Coober Pedy to Tennant Creek 1177 km Allow approx. 9+ Days - Add time for other attractions to see, adventures to explore, stops in Roadhouses, lookouts, interesting formations, and rest days. Watarrka / Kings Canyon ADELAIDE TO COOBER PEDY WATARRKA/KINGS CANYON TO 846 km 1 - 4 DAYS Coober Pedy 5 Day Itinerary on Page 8 ALICE SPRINGS Starting in Adelaide, South Australia call into some of Australia’s 474 km 1 - 2 DAYS More details on Page 94 favorite natural icons. Explore Coober Pedy through to the Northern After your day/s in this region you have the choice of following the Territory onto Uluru Kata Tjuta, Watarrka / Kings Canyon, the Red Centre Way) and along the Mereenie Loop road, providing you MacDonnell Ranges and Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles and onto Darwin. have a 4WD vehicle, or the sealed Luritja and Lasseter Highway that Your love of adventure will see you follow the route of the 1862 explorer will bring you back to the Stuart Highway and north to Alice Springs. John McDouall Stuart to which the Stuart Highway was named. Allow extra times/days for Henbury Meteorite Conservation Park, COOBER PEDY TO ULURU Stuarts Well Roadhouse and Rainbow Valley stop overs. 734 km 1 - 2 DAYS More details on Pages 16-26 Leaving Coober Pedy, you are heading north towards the Northern Territory border and onto the Stuart Highway/Lasseter’s Highway to Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, passing Mt Conner often confusing WEST MACDONNELL RANGES AND visitors of an early sighting of another famous red icon! GLEN HELEN 103 KM ONE WAY 1+ DAY More details on Pages 94-100 Part of the Red Centre Way, this easy day trip from Alice Springs ULURU TO WATARRKA/KINGS CANYON takes you along a sealed road to walking trails, stunning Chasms, and gorgeous gorges! Enjoy the waterholes with a swim, and enjoy some 300 km 1 DAY More details on Page 27 of the unique spots like the Ochre Pits, Ellery Big Hole and Ormiston Heading from Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, drive along the Lasseter Gorge. Plan extra days if you wish to enjoy camping adventures. Highway to the Luritja Highway turnoff. Drive through desert oak country and arrive at the stunning Watarrka / Kings Canyon with walking trails, huge sandstone walls and breathtaking views. ALICE SPRINGS TO TENNANT CREEK 510 km 1+ DAY More details on Page 106 North of Alice Springs you travel through many points of interest both with historical and natural beauty, from Connors Well to Native Gap to the incredible Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles, important to the Warumungu people. These massive boulders and continually cracking and changing and are strewn across a wide and shallow valley. The Explorers Way continues from Tennant Creek to Darwin for another 989 km. The changing landscapes are all beautiful, so take your time to really explore. If you are traveling from the beginning of October to end of March you will need to put your clock forward one hour as you cross the border from South Australia into Northern Territory. Trephine Gorge Lookout 6 Explore The Red Centre EXPLORERS WAY www.exploreoz.com.au EXPLORERS WAY 7 COOBER PEDY TYPES OF OPAL GREY/WHITE/MILKY OPAL OPAL CAPITAL Found in Coober Pedy, Mintabie, Andamooka, White Cliffs. The base colour is light, white or a GET OUTBACK... GET UNDERGROUND greyish colour. Considered the lowest grade of Get to Coober Pedy for a truly unique the Precious Opal. experience where the colours of the outback are as stunning as the gems found CRYSTAL OPAL underground. Allow time to really explore this Found in the SA Opal Fields. The base colour is region, it won’t disappoint! transparent or very translucent. The quality and value increases as range, brightness, and size of the colour play inside the stone improves. BLACK OPAL WELCOME TO COOBER PEDY Predominantly Lightning Ridge in NSW. The We want you to enjoy our unique surroundings – filled with colour, body colouring is a smoky to very dark grey, to the hope of discovery and the chance of riches. Founded by human black. The darker, the higher the value. perseverance and indomitable personalities, Coober Pedy has outlived BOULDER OPAL its wild-west history to share its multicultural community with all Found in the inland QLD Fields. Layers of Opal visitors. are naturally formed in narrow cavities in Situated between Adelaide and Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway, ironstone – often giving the opal an uneven Coober Pedy is a renowned opal mining town, steeped in mineral surface, or a mix of opal and ironstone on the wealth and local history. Opal was first discovered in 1915, followed surface. by an influx of prospectors from all around the world, and the multicultural community of 40 nationalities you find today. The town currently has more than 20 opal stores with opal displays ANCIENT HISTORY rivalling any opal town in the world! Museums & tours throughout Around 150 million years ago the area that is now Coober Pedy’s opal the area show the incredible beauty and variety of opal to be found, fields, was an inland sea. Over millennia the sea water receded, and mining history & modern mining machinery. with the lowering of the underground water silica solutions trapped View underground churches, sculpted from the beautiful sandstone, in the cavities and faults in the underground became the opals found picturesque landscapes and horizons as far as the eye can see. Where here today. better to escape the heat and dust than staying in underground accommodation, where the temperature is naturally cool and the ABORIGINAL HISTORY peaceful ambience ensures a good night’s sleep.