Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive: Distance & road trip stops
The Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive in Australia’s Northern Territory is 407km in distance, with a driving time of 4h13m. The best road trip stop on the way up the Stuart Highway is Lake Woods.
The Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive covers a significant swathe of Australia’s Northern Territory. It more or less links the Barkly Highway to the Carpentaria Highway. These are the two main routes across from Queensland from Cairns to Darwin.
Daly Waters is one of the best places to spend the night on the drive up the Stuart Highway from Adelaide to Darwin. This is partly because it breaks up the otherwise long and tough Tennant Creek to Katherine leg of the drive. But it’s mainly because you can enjoy beer, steak and live music at the Daly Waters Pub – one of the iconic outback watering holes.
Tennant Creek to Daly Waters distance and driving time
The drive from Tennant Creek to Daly Waters is 407km long. That makes for a driving time of around four hours and 13 minutes.
This Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive is the section of the Stuart Highway road trip where you see the landscape starting to change. Around Newcastle Waters, the stark outback starts to take on signs of the tropics. There’s more vegetation, and more signs of water.
Roadhouses on the Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive
There aren’t many stops worth investigating on the Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive alas. You can pull over for a coffee at the Threeways Roadhouse is just north of Tennant Creek, should you wish. This roadhouse is at the junction of the Barkly Highway.
The next plausible stop is the Renner Springs Desert Inn, which is 160km north of Tennant Creek.
But the best place to pull over on the Tennant Creek to Daly Waters drive is the Lake Woods Conservation Covenant. This reserve covers Lake Woods, an ephemeral lake that attracts plenty of bird life.
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