June 15-17, 2025
The second largest meteor crater in the world (Arizona being the home of #1) Wolfe Creek is a must see. It isn’t surprising that this wasn’t discovered until 1947, although it was known to local indigenous people, as it presents only a raised rim of rock and vegetation above the surrounding flat landscape, looking like any other low hill seen here from the car park at the base; only viewing from above reveals the actual crater.
The journey here involves 15km of highway 1 from Halls Creek, where we refuelled, then 120km of the Tanami of which 25km is sealed and they are working on the next 15km; after that the road gradually deteriorates and is followed by 22km into the campground which was also in poor and corrugated condition. Click the image for the photo gallery of the journey:
There is a campground here provided by DBCA (National Parks) with hybrid toilets and individual campsites; as we wanted to do the walk around the rim, we stayed for 2 nights and on our second morning everyone else left and we were briefly alone, surprisingly, considering the road and remoteness, the campground was full on our first night.
There is a walking trail around the rim of the crater which is mostly rocky and requires good footwear and the advised time of 2.5 hours was proved fairly accurate; from the campground the loop took us about that for a total of 4.5km; click the map for the photo gallery:
