Drive NQ
The Drive NQ program includes a variety of information about getting to and around North Queensland on your way to Cape York.
Self driving from the South?
The Great Tropical Drive has a network of fabulous driving routes throughout North Queensland with great routes and ideas for your travel from Townsville, the Atherton Tablelands or Cairns to Cooktown and Cape York!
The Matilda Highway is a popular route for grey nomads coming from the south and west. The route is an ideal way top get top or from cape York, and links in to the Bourke Development Road allowing a link through Palmerville to the Penninsula Development Road. Its 1700 km from Cunnamulla to Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Matilda passes through Mulga plains in the south to open Mitchell grass plains and desert uplands in the central west and gulf plains in the north. There are picturesque billabongs and vast inland river systems, rugged gorges and escarpments and many scenic national parks.
Self driving from the West?
The Savannah Way links Broome to North Queensland with adventurous self drive routes. The Savannah Way is an ideal adventure drive on the way to or from your Epic Cape York journey. The Savannah Waye joins Cairns in Tropical North Queensland with the historic pearling town of Broome in Western Australia’s Kimberley, via the natural wonders of Australia’s tropical savannahs and the Northern Territory’s Top End.
The 3700 km route connects 15 National Parks and five World Heritage areas. You can cross the continent enjoying its wide horizons, ancient gorges and abundant wildlife, connecting with Aboriginal and pioneer heritage in today’s friendly outback.
The Overlanders Way is another option when driving from the West. Follow in the drovers footsteps on a 1550 kilometre driving adventure across Queensland to the Northern Territory. The Overlander’s Way follows the paths of our droving heroes who brought vast herds of live cattle from the east Kimberley to the coast. The route, which later served as an important supply line during World War Two, starts at Townsville and takes in the Outback towns of Charters Towers, Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek, Cloncurry, Mount Isa and Camooweal on the Queensland-Northern Territory border and Tennant Creek.
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