Thread: How far up Cape York can you get a big truck (4x4)?

The bypass tracks (peninsula development road) goes all the way to the Jardine

"They" drive road trains with trucks that size as freight pretty much all the way up!

You'll easily get to Bamaga without a problem but the last few km (from a bit after the Crock Tent to the tip) might be interesting as the road is a bit narrow with a few passing places and overhanging tree branches.

And the car park at the top isn't very big either.

Why not get one of these?

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Why not get one of these?

Air con.too...

We towed our camper trailer all the way to the abandoned resort right at the tip, and even managed to find a spot to camp inside the resort property with a view of the water right at the tip, so yes it should be fine.
Saw several small truck-type campers up there. Some of them even did the Old Telegraph Track.

Originally Posted by Hoges

"They" drive road trains with trucks that size as freight pretty much all the way up!

Peninsula Transport used to run Leyland Super Hippos up there from Cairns. Mrs. Holzheimer (Toots) used to drive one herself.

Edit:- And this was thirty and forty years ago when road conditions were truly frightful, not good like they are today suitable for tourists in SUV's with carpet and metallic paint.

So all the videos you see of 4WDs dropping into creeks and carefully inching across pole wooden bridges and generally getting bogged to get up there are on a separate track (CREB track?)?

From the videos, I'd be thinking that a truck's height would be the main impediment to going where the normal Land Rover/LandCruiser size 4WDs are being filmed.