Camooweal to Lawn Hill Route and Conditions

I drove the Gregory Downs to Riversleigh turn off part of this road last year.
It was awful, easily the worst "gravel highway" I have been on ever. It had all been graded when laid but it was made up of fine dirt/sand and sharp rocks about 150mm in size.
Traffic had removed a lot of the sand leaving the sharp edges protruding up in the air and this is what we had to travel on.
We crept over it (at 20-30k) expecting to cut a tyre at any time, we were very glad to see the Riversleigh turn off. The road from there to Adels Grove was a typical gravel road and no problems.
Hopefully someone has been there this year and can give you a more up to date report.

I’ve not been up to Gregory for a while but if travelling from Camooweal I’d definitely travel down the Barkly Highway to the turnoff near Inca Ck. It’s only about 65kms. Bit of bitumen up that way too. Some good scenery along there as well.

Bob

Thanks Bob and Ozi. Seems like I now have a plan.

Regards, Ron

did it a couple of years ago coming south then turned down the Thorntonia road then to Mt Isa.It was terrible ,just rocks and more rocks .Sounds like it hasn't changed .No damage ,just slow going .

This is the way we went. A few years ago now, and more of it has been sealed.



Those who took the Gregory Downs Road north from Camooweal found it bad. We took the Yelverton Road which was sealed. The road past Thorntonia was sealed in patches with road works progressing. The Riverseigh Road was a good unsealed road at the time, with two or three water crossings on narrow concrete causeways with shallow water flowing over.



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Just following up as I enjoy my first night at Lawn Hill. I used the route as planned and in Motherhens map above. Compared to where I have driven recently it was a great drive in. There was a good amount of bitumen, much of the gravel road was like a highway and there were some rocky or lightly corrugated sections. It seems like there has been recent grading. The last 7.5k into the NP were the worst. It was easy to maintain 60 to 80 on all the gravel and I did drop my tyre pressures. The only anxious moments were two causeways at Riversleigh. Very slippery and one flowing quite quickly but neither very deep. I did feel the steering let go for a few moments. There was very little traffic on this route