looking for 4wd tracks little desert to mildura???

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hey guys was planning on going up around mildura and little desert later in year looking for some great tracks and stuff to do some one said there is a mail run track or postal track was told to look it up but not sure what it is called

any help would be great and also campsites free or paying
thanks corallen

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Re: looking for 4wd tracks little desert to mildura???

Advise you to get the Victoria Deserts Map put put by Meridian ( The Melbourne Map centre will have it )
It shows all the tracks you can take on that route.
You could do the Border Track, of course, but certain parts of that you were only allowed to run North -South.

An interesting trip with a fair bit of offroad is to travel North from Nhill To Lake Albacutya, traverse Wyperfeld NP via North South Tk, Eagle Tks, Gunners Tks, and then hop over the Mallee Hwy into Murray Sunset NP. go up via Mopoke Tk through to the northern side and then on to Mildura.

All the camping spots re marked on the map I spoke about.

Take plenty of water and let your tyres down. It's also wise have some sort of emergency comms device like a EPIRB or sat phone.

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Re: looking for 4wd tracks little desert to mildura???

thanks for that oz. looking at the old mail route from nhill to mildura could ya do it 3 days or need a week is it slow moving or fast???

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Re: looking for 4wd tracks little desert to mildura???

I'm still not sure where this "mail run" goes.

The route I described, you could do it easily in three days, but if you want to look around a bit and take side trips to the Snowdrift, Pink Lakes etc, and generally soak up the atmosphere of the desert country, then maybe a day or two more would be good.

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Re: looking for 4wd tracks little desert to mildura???

thanks for that oz. looking at the old mail route from nhill to mildura could ya do it 3 days or need a week is it slow moving or fast???

There is the Old Mail Route track between Wentworth and Remark. Not sure of any other around that way. There was a write up about it in a recent issue of 4WD Action. Here is a link to a trip a couple of fellas did on bikes through the area. I think there is a GPS track as well which might help:
Tracing Mail Routes of the 1850s and 1860s along the Murray River

Google Maps - Old Mail Route