CANNING PLANNER

The greatest 4x4 trip in Australia? The Canning Stock Route is certainly one of the longest, and one that we first travelled in 1986, the first of six epic adventures along its complete length, the last in 2024. Here is our latest update on this iconic track

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THE Canning Stock Route, or CSR for those who have travelled it, is by many accounts the longest and most isolated stock route in the world. This challenging journey stretches 1800km from the relatively well-watered southeastern edge of the Kimberley at Halls Creek, across the deserts of Western Australia, and to the rich goldfields north of Kalgoorlie. The route was first surveyed by Alfred Canning in 1906 and he suggested that a stock route across the deserts could be built despite this being contrary to the strongly held and stated beliefs of earlier explorers such as David Carnegie and Lawrence Wells. Tasked with the job to build it, he set out from Wiluna in March 1908, arriving in Halls Creek (now called Old Halls Creek) in July of the following…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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