Tennant Creek to Darwin road trip: Stops, distance & drive time

Tennant Creek to Darwin drive: Pine Creek and Adelaide River

Keep going and you’ll reach Pine Creek, where the Kakadu Highway from Kakadu National Park joins the Stuart Highway. The Old Railway Station and Railway Museum is worth a look in Pine Creek, as is the Enterprise Pit Mine Lookout. This former open cut mine that has now filled with water, and is effectively a weird-looking lake.

Next is Adelaide River, where the Adelaide River War Cemetery is the only war cemetery in the country. There was a large World War II military base here.

A word of warning: This is not where you do the infamous jumping crocodile cruises. They run on the Adelaide River, but further upstream, just off the Arnhem Highway.

Next up: Litchfield National Park and Humpty Doo