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The 1050 kilometre Tanami Road is the most direct and adventurous road route linking Halls Creek to Alice Springs. It is mainly unsealed road, accessible only to four wheel drive vehicles, heavy transport and tour buses. Road conditions must be checked and fuel stops well planned before commencing the journey.

The distance from Halls Creek to Alice Springs is 1,077 kilometres. From Wyndham to Halls Creek is 370 kilometres, and Alice Springs via Katherine to Wyndham is 1,822 kilometres.

Below is a distance chart explaining what to see and do on the Tanami Road (Halls Creek to Alice Springs).

(Distance is in kilometres)

0.0 Halls Creek Post Office on left.

0.16 Royal Automobile Club (RAC) Western Australia Depot on the right.

0.32 Police Station on the right.

1.12 Airfield to left 1/4 mile grid.

9.17 Creek.

11.75 Sharp Creek.

12.23 Deep Creek.

16.90 Turn left, straight on, right to Fitzroy Crossing, Broome, Derby and Perth.

19.64 Windmill and tank on left.

57.96 Ruby Plains Homestead on right.

58.28 Stockyards on right.

59.40 Creek.

59.57 Creek.

64.56 Fence on right, creek.

64.88 Pass throuch range of low stoney hills.

67.62 Sharpe Creek.

70.0 Range on right.

77.6 Stockyards on right.

77.9 Dam on left two hundred yards.

81.6 Sharpe sandy creek.

101.4 Creek.

101.7 Creek (gum lined).

101.9 Creek.

111.8 Gum Creek.

129.2 Track off to left.

132.6 Track off to left to "Carranya" sixteen kilometres.

151.4 Track in off to left.

174.6 Track off to right.

177.7 Cross track.

178.5 Track in on right, "Bilaluna Station".

179.3 Creek - deep with concrete crossing "Stuart Creek" water.

179.4 Creek.

180.1 Creek.

224.3 Turn left, road straight on to Balgo Mission.

229.5 Pass through range of low stoney hills.

247.7 Track to right, sandy.

335.7 Northern Territory/Western Australia border, road widens.

411.2 Creek.

416.8 Bear right, road in on left from "Supplejack Station" Black Hills.

417.9 Tanami (abandoned) windmill to right one-hundred and fifty yards.

452.4 Creek.

461.6 Bear left to Rabbit Flat, road straight on.

462.5 "Rabbit Flat" petrol and stores.

464.3 Road in on right.

507.3 Trog Point on right three-hundred yards.

521.9 "Old Granites Homestead" on left (abandoned) windmill and tank on right. Road doesn't go up there now.

546.9 Track to left to "Sangsters Well" 12.

591.1 Track in on right from "Mongrel Downs Station".

592.1 Stockyards on left.

619.3 Windmill and tank on right. Roadside stop with water and barbecue shelter.

641.2 Leave wildlife sanctuary.

647.3 Airstrip on right, track off to right to "Chilla Well" Station 3.

650.5 Windmill and tank on right, twenty-five yards "Chilla Well".

651.8 Track in on right from "Chilla Well" Station five point six kilometres.

689.3 Sandy creek.

716.5 Stockyards, dams and windmill on right.

719.5 Old airstrip on left.

720.7 Old huts on left, "Mt Doreen Station" (abandoned).

731.9 Gate, windmill, dam and stockyards on right.

753.3 Track in on right, sign post Vaughan Springs seventy-seven point two kilometres.

759.8 Gate, boundry Yuendumu and Mt Doreen Stations.

772.5 Gate.

775.4 Track off to left to Yuendumu.

779.4 Grid.

779.6 Cross roads, turn left to Yuendumu one point six kilometres, sign post to Alice Springs two-hundred and seventy-six point eight kilometres straight on.

780.9 Yuendumu Station gate, turn left. (no gate on main raod).

781.3 Yuendumu Office, petrol available.

781.5 Return to mission gate, track to right straight ahead.

*Permit needed to enter mission*.

781.8 Bear left, road in on right from ganites two-hundred and fifty-one point one kilometres Mt Doreen fifty-seven point nine kilometres sign post.

784.7 Track in on left, sign post Mt Dennison thirty-five point four kilometres, Pine Hill one-hundred and fifty-seven point seven kilometres, Aileron one-hundred and ninety-six point three kilometres, Conniston ninety-one point seven kilometres.

795.3 Grid, boundry Mt Allen and Yuendumu Stations.

800.2 Sign post boundry bore - undrinkable water, windmill to left one hundred yards.

810.1 Track to left, sign post Mt Allen Homestead thirty-three point eight kilometres.

822.1 Track to right, sign post Smiths Gift point two of a kilometre. Medways bore six point four kilometres, Bloodwood bore twelve point nine kilometres.

823.2 Track to left, sign post Napperby sixty-seven point six kilometres. Aileron one-hundred and thirty-eight point four kilometres.

836.9 Track to right, sign post Central Mt Wedge twenty-four point one kilometres.

840.1 Grid.

840.4 Cassidy bore, undrinkable water, windmill on right one-hundred yards.

849.4 Station boundry - Napperby and Mt Allen, sign post Witchetty bore - undrinkable water, windmill to left.

873.1 Track on right, Central Mt Wedge Station.

887.3 Napperby Creek and bore four kilometres to right.

908.3 Stockyards on right fifty yards.

913.5 Queens Visit bore - undrinkable water, windmill on right three-hundred yards.

933.4 Grid.

950.2 Track to right sign post Mt Chapple bore one point six kilometres, Haasts Bluff one-hundred and twenty point seven kilometres, Narwietooma thirty point six kilometres, Glen Helen seventy point eight kilometres, Derwent ninety-five kilometres.

953.5 Windmill on right one-hundred yards.

957.9 Charleys creek.

966.3 Track to right, Milton Park.

967.2 Grid.

969.0 Sign post limestone bore to right two-hundred yards - undrinkable.

*At last bitument onwards to Alice Springs*.

977.0 Grid.

978.5 Windmill on right three-hundred yards.

986.2 Amburla creek.

986.7 Track in on left, sign post Amburla eight kilometres.

988.6 Grid, boundry Hamilton Downs and Amburla.

989.1 Track off to right Hamilton Downs sign post.

990.4 Grid.

1001.2 Track to right sign post Hamilton Downs no through road.

1002.5 Track to left. "Hamburger" twelve point nine kilometres, windmill and dam to left three-hundred yards.

1003.6 Hamburger creek.

1010.0 Track in on right from Black Hill.

1019.9 Grid.

1020.3 Track in on left, sign post "Cadney".

1026.8 Sign post Kunuth Well, windmill and tank on right one-hundred yards.

1043.0 Grid.

1049.6 Grid.

1056.7 Bitumen road, turn right, road to left goes to Darwin sign post, one-thousand five-hundred and seventeen point eight kilometres.

1057.7 Grid.

1063.3 Windmill and tank on right one-hundred yards.

1070.9 Creek.

1074.9 Road to Telegraph Station National Park on left.

1075.2 Entrance to race course on right.

1075.5 Wintersun Caravan Park to right.

1077.5 Bear left.

1077.6 Bear right into Railway Terrace and Alice Springs Post Office on left.