Birdsville Track Travel Tips

Outback accommodation along the Birdsville Track

Outback accommodation along the track means pitch your tent and enjoy the stars at night. Mungerannie is the only place that offers a wider range of facillities.

It doesn't matter if you head out from Marree or Birdsville, either way you can stock up on the basic supplies in both towns.

Birdsville water tanks

Marree's facilities are listed in the Oodnadatta Track Travel Tips section.

Mungerannie Roadhouse, Ph: 08-8675 8317

The roadhouse has an unique, inviting bush pub that serves warm meals and ice cold beer. Of course, you also can get other cold beverages here :). All sorts of fuel are available, as well as minor car repairs and tyres.

Jeez, we really had to use their service after a tyre blew off on the track! It is a scary feeling to drive on the stony Birdsville Track knowing that you don't have a spare tyre anymore. But that's adventure!

Mungerannie has basic cabin style accommodation with shared bathrooms. The best way to spend the night is on the campground which is close to a permanent waterhole fed by an artesian bore, proudly called the Derwent River. It is hard to believe to see the water, bushes, and the rich bird life after you came along the dusty track. Enjoy the bird-watching. Australia is a good place explore the nature.

Derwent River - Mungerannie wetlands

Campsites along the Birdsville Track

Clayton Station camping area - a basic campsite just 45 km north of Marree, caravan access, toilets. You need to bring water and firewood. A small fee has to be paid to the honour box.

Cooper Creek camping area - the site is much the same as the Clayton area.

Birdsville   Population ~ 100

Birdsville offers everything travellers need on their long trip into the Outback.

The Birdsville Caravan Park, 1 Florence Street, offers a wide area for campers & caravanners to stay in a lovely spot next to the billabong. There are also serviced units and deluxe cabins to rent. Relax at their coffee shop after a hard day exploring the town.

The Birdsville Hotel Ph: 07-4656 3244, Adelaide Street, no visit to the town is complete without having at least a drink in the famous old pub. The hotel offers motel-style accommodation at the back. Lunch and dinner are served in the "Green Lizard Bar" every day.

The Big Red Cafe in the Blue Poles gallery offers mouth watering meals and snacks every day. The Cafe is open from 9 am.

You won't miss the Birdsville bakery with the huge letters on its tin roof. Fresh bread, pies and other goodies, as well as pizza & pastas in the evening are available.

So, even if Birdsville is far away from everything, you won't starve out there.

Caveat: During the first weekend in September the town explodes from usually 100 to 5000 people. The Birdsville races make this possible. More about this famous bush event soon. Neither the hotel nor the caravan park take reservations for this busy weekend.

Other facilities in town include

• two fuel stations with a shop and car repair services
• post office
• Tourist information: Wirrarri Information Centre Ph: 07-4656 3300, Billabong Boulevard, has a library and internet cafe
• medical clinic and emergency services

The famous Birdsville Pub, certainly
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