Let’s Drive QUEENSLAND
Townsville to Tennant Creek (total distance - 1081km)
OVERLANDER’S Way Julia Creek
This drive follows, in reverse, the driving routes across Queensland from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory to Townsville. Townsville is home to Barrier Reef HQ and the Museum of Tropical Queensland.
1081km
Just off the coast is Magnetic Island, more than half of which is designated as a National Park. Heading west over the Great Dividing Range you will first reach the gold mining town of Charters Towers. A short drive out of town is Leahton Park, home of the biggest herd of Texas longhorn cattle in the country. Further west you’ll come to Hughenden, formerly an inland sea with dinosaurs. At the Flinders Discovery Centre, make sure you see the 7-metre long skeleton of ‘Hughie’, a Muttaburrasaurus. En route to Richmond, take a 1-hour side trip to Porcupine Gorge, Australia’s ‘Little Grand Canyon’.
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