best stopovers on coastal route to Broome

oakforddavo · Veteran Member

best stopovers on coastal route to Broome

sufil · Guru

Are you free camping or Caravan Park-ing?

Are you holidaying with no real time span or need to be there in 5 days?

Do you want to follow the coast or go via the inland route?

Once we know that you will get lots of responses .

george57 · Senior Member

G'day David...

Nothing worse than having a question answered by a question.....anyway to try to answer your question, although I havent done the trip I checked my old CAMPS 4 and found that there were plenty of camp spots, a lot well within 7 hrs travelling.

So I thoroughly reccomend that you purchase the latest camps books, in my opinion invaluable .

Otherwise, talk to other travellers when you pull up for the night, some have done the trip before, or may give you their thoughts regarding free camps/budget caravan parks. I have in my travels picked up some good camping spots and shared some as well.

Hope this has been of some help..

Cheers
George

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Howdy Davo, I reckon if you have a comfy tug you will cope with 6 hours very easily. I have just come from the bottom of Victoria to Townsville doing 12 hour drives and still had some puff left, just. I was forced to do those times due to a tug problem. I am very comfortable in my Prado. I'm one of these early starters so find myself in places early so just keep going.

oakforddavo · Veteran Member

We were hoping to do the trip up to Fitzroy at speed and take more time on the way back and we want to try to miss the real busy time. Dont mind the odd free camp but appreciate comforts sometimes and due to medical situation need decent bathroom facilities. Thought about the inland route first to be different but had many comments from other nomads which seemed to suggest that it wasn't a good idea.

Vic41 · Guru

The coastal route would be the most busy as many are already heading north this way, I would suggest sticking to your original plan and going via the inland route on the way up and the coastal route coming down (less traffic heading south, most going north).

Buy the Camps Australia Wide book, both Camps 7 and Caravan Parks Australia Wide, available direct online or from camping shops, bookshops, or RAC shops (members discount). They will show you all the free camps and caravan parks you need to know.

You can also buy apps for you phones/ipads etc and GPS. See this link;

http://www.campsaustraliawide.com/

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Inland by choice.

Cheers,
Peter

oakforddavo · Veteran Member

would I be right in thinking that the busy period for these places will be July/August ?

Vic41 · Guru

From the times I have been up around that way most seem to start around May onwards, some earlier and probably June/July the busiest.

Bear in mind "The Crossover"..... Those who went north on the east and central to travel across the top to the west, and those in the west who travel north in WA to got around that way. Both groups meet (crossover) along the way especially up north placing more demand on caravan parks and free camps etc....