West MacDonnell National Park

West MacDonnell National Park features a wide variety of flora and fauna, some of which can only be found within the park. The Larapinta Trail also runs through the park.

Address: Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory Alice Springs Region, Box 2130
South Stuart Highway, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia

Tips: Access via Larapinta Drive. Fees are for camping only and apply per night.

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Walking Trails

In Ormiston Pound, a wide valley 10km across framed by ranges of hills, there are a number of walking circuits (drinking water, sun protection and sturdy footwear essential).

Half an hour's walk will take you to see the breathtaking views from Ghost Gum Lookout.

The Ghost Gum Way from the visitor center to the gorge (2.5 km; 1-3 hours there and back) is waymarked in white, the Pound Walk (7 km; 3-4 hours) in yellow.

A longer bush walk (several days) leads north through the Pound to Mount Giles (1283m).

Address: Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory Alice Springs Region, Box 2130
South Stuart Highway, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia

Tips: Access via Namatjira Drive and a good gravel road (8km) negotiable by all types of vehicle. Bring your own drinking water. Facilities include camping grounds, ranger station, visitor center, campfire sites, toilets, showers, beautiful bathing area. Fees are for camping only and apply per night.

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Redbank Nature Park, centered on an impressive gorge with a number of perennial waterholes, lies in a beautiful setting under Mount Sonder.

From the parking lot it is a half-hour walk to the gorge, at one point only 1m wide, with sheer walls 40m high. The water in the rock pools is ice-cold.

Tips: Access from Glen Helen a natural track (improved) for 20 km, then side road to park, followed by 4km on a difficult track. A track negotiable only by all-terrain vehicles then runs west (17km) to the Gosse Bluff Scientific Reserve and east through Aboriginal territory to Hermannsburg . Conventional cars would do better to return along Namatjira Drive to Iwupataka and from there take the asphalted Larapinta Drive to Hermannsburg (no permit required for a day trip to see the historic mission station).

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