Timber Creek - Escape the everyday

A remote, mystical land steeped in Aboriginal ancestral mythology, Gregory National Park is the Northern Territory's second largest national park. Bordering the Tanami Desert, the park's 13,000 square kilometres embrace a contrasting landscape of tropical and semi-arid terrain: from monsoon rainforest, eucalyptus trees and lagoons to ranges, gorges and escarpments. As well as being moodily beautiful the area is important historically to indigenous Australians, and as a site of European expeditions and pastoral life.

There are many different ways to enjoy the park; take a boat tour or hire your own boat, try a scenic flight, go bushwalking, fishing or camping. Challenging four-wheel drive tracks have been developed to give you access to the more remote areas in the south of the park. Take your time to explore them while soaking up the beauty of the gorges and lagoons.

A boat ramp on Big Horse Creek gives access to the Victoria River, teeming with barramundi - but take care - they are also noted for saltwater crocodiles. The park also features a 'frozen waterfall', a calcite flow formed over many years by calcium carbonate-rich water flowing over the river rocks. For the adventurous, the Bullita Cave System, 62 kilometres long and with multiple entrances, is there just waiting to be explored.