DestinationsVIC · 2WD
Wilsons Promontory National Park
The southernmost tip of mainland Australia, with granite headlands, squeaking white sand and the most heavily booked campground in Victoria.
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DestinationsNT · 2WD
Litchfield National Park
Waterfalls you can swim in an hour and a half from Darwin, mostly on sealed road, with the crocodile management that makes that possible.
DestinationsWA · 2WD
Karijini National Park
Deep iron-red gorges cut into the Pilbara, with the best swimming in Western Australia at the bottom of them. Straightforward to reach, genuinely serious once you leave the rim.
DestinationsWA · 2WD
Cape Range National Park
A limestone range on one side of the road and Ningaloo Reef on the other. The rare place where you can camp above a beach and swim onto coral from it.
DestinationsSA · AWD
Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
Ancient folded ranges five hours north of Adelaide, with a geology trail you can drive and the most legible landscape in South Australia.
DestinationsQLD · 4WD
K'gari
The largest sand island on earth, where every road is a beach or a sand track and the tide timetable decides your day.
DestinationsNT · 2WD
Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park
A line of gorges and waterholes running west from Alice Springs, most of them reachable on sealed road, all of them cut through the same ancient range.
DestinationsVIC · 2WD
Grampians National Park (Gariwerd)
Sandstone ranges rising straight out of the Western District farmland, three hours from Melbourne, with the best short walks in Victoria.