How long is the Lasseter Highway?

The Lasseter Highway is 244km long. It runs through the Northern Territory’s Red Centre, connecting the Stuart Highway to Yulara, the Uluru tourism hub.

The Lasseter Highway is surprisingly busy given its remote location. Don’t expect heavy traffic, but don’t expect the sort of outback drive where you don’t see a soul for hours, either.

Where is the Lasseter Highway?

The Lasseter Highway is a sealed road in the Red Centre of Australia’s Northern Territory. It connects Erldunda to Yulara. If you’ve not heard of either settlement, don’t worry about it – most Australians haven’t either.

Erldunda is basically a roadhouse on the Stuart Highway, the main road through the centre of Australia.

Yulara, meanwhile, is home to the Ayers Rock Resort and Ayers Rock Airport. It is the tourism hub for both Uluru and Kata-Tjuta, the two biggest attractions in the Red Centre.

Hence there are more people than perhaps expected driving down the Lasseter Highway – it’s an integral part of the drive from Alice Springs to Uluru. Or, if coming from the south, the drive from Coober Pedy to Uluru or Adelaide to Uluru.

Length of the Lasseter Highway

But how long is the Lasseter Highway and how long does the drive from Erldunda to Yulara take? Well, the official length of the Lasseter Highway is 244km. It takes just under two-and-a-half hours to drive from Erldunda to Yulara if you don’t stop on the way.

Frankly, there aren’t too many places to entice you into stopping on the way, either. The Mount Conner Lookout is arguably worth pulling over for – if only to double check that the big monolith you can see really isn’t Uluru.

Lasseter Highway roadhouses and fuel stops

There’s also a fuel and snack stop at the Curtin Springs Roadhouse. Curtin Springs also offers accommodation and a campground for those who want to stay somewhere cheaper than the Ayers Rock Resort, then blow the savings on petrol driving a long way to Uluru and back. It’s also possible to book guided walks on the vast Curtin Springs Station.

Until fairly recently, there were two roadhouses on the Lasseter Highway. The Mount Ebeneezer Roadhouse, closer to Erldunda, has now closed however.

Things to do in Yulara, NT

Things to do in Yulara once you finally get there include Uluru Segway tours, scenic helicopter flights and the Sounds of Silence dinner on a desert dunetop.

Other options include Uluru camel rides and Aboriginal dot painting workshops.