Carnarvon Great Walk

Carnarvon National Park

Walk the trails of the Carnarvon Great Wallk to experience a remote and beautiful landscape of towering sandstone cliffs, sweeping tablelands and shaded side-gorges.

The Carnarvon Great Walk links the Carnarvon Gorge and Mount Moffatt sections of Carnarvon National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty and human history set within the highlands of the Central Queensland Sandstone Belt.

Getting there

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Maps

https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/carnarvon-great-walk/pdf/carnarvongw-topo.pdf

Route/Trail notes

A detailed description of the walk!

Permits/Costs

Do you need any permits? What's the cost?

Other References

How can I find more info? Any guide books?

Comments

Amazing walk!

EchidnaScout on 7 Jul, 2021

A very rewarding walk. I've posted a full report of our experience here for anyone interested: https://www.davidbrewsterphotography.com/carnarvon-great-walk-2021

David Brewster on 12 Apr, 2021

Great walk. Very hard up Battleship spur with 17kg on ones back. Trail gets a little astray at times. Good map reading and attention to marker arrows essential.

Craig Buchan on 13 May, 2019

I loved this hike. I did it as a 4 day hike-I did section 1 on day 1, 2 on day 2 then sections 3 and 4 on day 3, sections 5 & 6 on day 4.

Definitely do the side Tracks the first day.

The climb up Battleship Spur on day 2 is challenging with a full pack. I'd think it would be brutal in hit weather-there isn't a lot of shade on much of the trail.

I saw emus and a lot of wild pigs.

The trail was very overgrown and hard to follow at times in the last section but it's otherwise very well defined.

sk on 13 Apr, 2015

Not a bad effort for a first attempt at a multi-day walk.

Very challenging, but remote, and very beautiful.

Thom on 6 Oct, 2012

Awesome walk, do the side trails on day 1

B_T on Sep, 2012

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