Destinations

Every main destination in Northern Territory

Tours, attractions, caravan parks and local guides — all organised by place. Sam pulls these together from what our team's actually visited and what travellers tell us is worth the detour. Pick a destination to start planning.

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Darwin
Top End

Darwin

Darwin is the Northern Territory's tropical, multicultural harbour capital on Larrakia country, rebuilt four times by cyclones and war, and the main gateway to Kakadu, Litchfield and Katherine.

Uluru
Red Centre

Uluru

Uluru and Kata Tjuta are the spiritual and geological heart of the Red Centre, sacred Aṉangu country jointly managed since the 1985 handback and the 2019 climb closure.

Kakadu
Top End

Kakadu

World-heritage wetlands, rock art at Ubirr, Jim Jim Falls and croc-filled billabongs.

Alice Springs
Red Centre

Alice Springs

Alice Springs is the Red Centre's outback capital — Arrernte country on the Todd River, gateway to Uluru and Kings Canyon, and home to the School of the Air and Royal Flying Doctor Service.

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Palmerston
Top End

Palmerston

Palmerston is Darwin's purpose-built satellite city on Larrakia country, a young, family-friendly NT city that makes a handy, cheaper base for exploring Litchfield, Kakadu and Katherine.

Kings Canyon
Red Centre

Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon's famous Rim Walk cuts along 100-metre sandstone cliffs above the Garden of Eden waterhole and the beehive domes of the Lost City, deep in Watarrka National Park.

Litchfield
Top End

Litchfield

Litchfield National Park is Darwin's favourite day trip: sealed roads, no permits, and a run of swimming holes, sandstone formations and magnetic termite mounds within two hours of the city.

Tennant Creek
Barkly

Tennant Creek

Tennant Creek is a genuine outback highway city on Warumungu country, built on a 1930s gold rush and the gateway to the Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles boulders down the Stuart Highway.

Katherine
Top End

Katherine

Katherine is the Top End's working gateway city, an unglamorous highway town wrapped around the thirteen gorges of Jawoyn-owned Nitmiluk National Park.

Victoria River
Top End

Victoria River

The Victoria River's escarpment country is the NT's 'mini Kimberley' — dramatic gorge cliffs, boabs and cattle-station history most travellers only ever see through a windscreen.

MacDonnell Ranges
Red Centre

MacDonnell Ranges

The MacDonnell Ranges (Tjoritja) split east and west of Alice Springs into a maze of red gorges, permanent waterholes, historic sites and the famous 223km Larapinta Trail.

Arnhem Land
Top End

Arnhem Land

Permit-access Aboriginal land — rock art, Injalak Hill, buffalo safaris and remote fishing.

Borroloola
Gulf of Carpentaria

Borroloola

Small Gulf-country town on the McArthur River — Yanyuwa, Garawa, Marra and Gudanji country. Barramundi fishing in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands, the Old Police Station Museum, and the gateway to Limmen National Park and its Southern Lost City sandstone formations.

Cobourg Peninsula
Arnhem Land

Cobourg Peninsula

Mainland Australia's northernmost peninsula, almost entirely contained within Garig Gunak Barlu National Park — Australia's first Ramsar wetland (1974). Iwaidja country, Victoria Settlement ruins, world-class sport fishing, and the most remote-feeling drive-in destination in the Top End.

Gove Peninsula
East Arnhem Land

Gove Peninsula

The Gove Peninsula sits on the easternmost tip of Arnhem Land on Yolŋu country — Nhulunbuy town, the Yirrkala art centre, Turtle Beach and Daliwuy Bay, and host of the annual Garma Festival at Gulkula. Permit-only access via the Northern Land Council; best April to October.

Tiwi Islands
Top End

Tiwi Islands

Bathurst + Melville — AFL-mad island community, art centres and day-trip ferries from Darwin.