Camping costs

Free Camps
Cobar Old Reservoir – 1 night
Spring Hills Rest Area – 1 night
Peterborough RV Park – 1 night
Big Aerial Desert Camp – 1 night
Truck Stop Desert Camp – 1 night
Point Howard Lookout – 1 night
Neil Hargrave Lookout – 1 night
Petermann Rest Area – 1 night
Mount John Rest Area – 1 night
Salt Lake Rest Area – 1 night
Hogwash Bend Conservation Park – 2 nights
Balranald Weir – 1 night
Sandy Point Reserve, Hay – 1 night

Low-cost Campgrounds
CMCA RV Park, Port Pirie – 1 night @ $7.00

Caravan Parks
Broken Hill Racesourse – 3 nights powered @ $35 = $105.00
Discovery Parks – Port Augusta – 1 night powered $38.14
Big4 Stuart Range Coober Pedy – 2 nights powered @ $ = $42.00
Discovery Parks – Alice Springs – 3 nights powered @ $ = $116.24
Discovery Parks – Glen Helen – 3 nights unpowered @ $40 = $120.00
Discovery Parks – Alice Springs – 1 night @ = $80.00
Ayers Rock Campground – 6 nights powered = $766.00
Discovery Parks – Kings Canyon – 3 nights powered @ $ = $130.90
Discovery Parks – Port Augusta – 1 nights powered = $88.20
Big4 Renmark – 3 nights powered = $274.24

Total Camping Costs
Free Camps = 14 nights Cost = $0
Low-cost Campgrounds = 1 nights Cost = $7
Caravan Parks = 26 nights Cost =$1,760.72
Total = 41 nights Total Cost = $1,767.72

Fuel
Home – $121.38
Cobar – $130.96
Broken Hill – $153.16
Peterborough – $105.03
Port Augusta – $45.20
Spuds Roadhouse – $86.78
Coober Pedy – $131.43
Kulgera Roadhouse – $204.30
Alice Springs – $170.30
Yulara – $192.28
Kings Canyon – $130.90
Kulgera Roadhouse – $158.61
Coober Pedy – $152.61
Spuds Roadhouse – $144.98
Morgan – $158.37
Balranald – $134.47

Total Fuel = $2,012.71

Wood
Alice Springs – 1 x wood 1 x kindling = $40
Yulara – 1 x $20
Port Pirie – 2 x $15 = $30
Renmark – 2 x $15 = $30
Balranald – $15

Total Wood = $135

Gas
Broken Hill – $24
Alice Springs – $20
Port Pirie – $20

Total Gas = $64

Sightseeing
Cobar – Heritage Centre – $10
Broken Hill
– Line of Lode Miners Memorial – free
– Day Dream Mine Tour Silverton – $169.51
– Old Gaol Silverton – $20.00
– Royal Flying Doctor tour – $40.00
– GeoCentre Broken Hill – $10.00
Peterborough – Sound N Light Show & Museum – $210.00
Woomera – Rocket Park – free
Coober Pedy
– Big Winch 360 Experience – $76.00
– Noble Tours – $405.00
Alice Springs
– Megafauna Centre – free
– Old Telegraph Station – $63.47
– Anzac Lookout – free
– Alice Springs Desert Park – $55.00
– Alice Springs Show & Fireworks for Territory Day – $50.00
– Barry Skipsy Red Centre Show – free
Stanley chasm entry – $11.00
Yulara
– Camel ride – $178.00
– Helicopter ride (Richard’s half) – $270.00
– Field of Light Dinner – $191.75
– Cycling Uluru – $320.00
– Uluru Base Walk (Jenny & Katie) – free
– Uluru/Kata Tjuta National Park Pass – 3 @ $50 = $150
Port Augusta – Wadlata Centre – $37.15
Balranald – Yanga Homestead – free

Total sightseeing = $2,266.88

Other
Bells Milk Bar – $84.65
Stanley Chasm lunch – $47.00
Pub Lunch Uncles Tavern Alice Springs – $92.00
Kings Canyon Pub dinner out – $172.97
Wadlata Centre – $73.60
Seafood takeaway, Port Pirie – $98.00

Total other = $568.22

Total trip costs = $6,814.53

Total kilometres traveled = 6,239