Turkey Creek Roadhouse in the Kimberley's

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About the Kimberley
• The Kimberley in Australia is one of the last true wilderness areas on Earth, with rustic unique outback landscapes and landmarks billions of years in the making. Covering app 423,000 square kilometres in north Western Australia and with a population of less than 40,000 people, it’s here you’ll encounter some of the most extraordinary outback adventuresand folks in Australia. Discover ancient gorge country with hikes and trekking a must in planning your Kimberley vacation to enormous cattle stations, pristine coastline and sandy beaches, to one of the oldest cultures on the planet and the world’s only horizontal waterfalls.

Self drive along the Gibb River Road from Broome or Darwin is a Australia four wheel drive hire camper or wagon. The Gibb River Road was initially constructed as a beef road to transport cattle from the surrounding stations to the ports of Derby and Wyndham.It spans some six-hundred and seventy kilometres from Derby to the junction of the Great Northern Highway between Wyndham and Kununurra.

Turkey Creek Roadhouse - from Kununurra or from Halls Creek

Turkey Creek Roadhouse service, food, fuel, accommodation, Warmun ... a friendly rest-stop between Kununurra and Halls Creek.

Warmun Roadhouse Caravan Park and Motel, +61 8 91687882 (warmunroadhouse@bigpond.com). Mostly shaded powered sites with a shower block and grassed areas around a swimming pool to make things comfortable. A secure caravan storage compound is available if you want to leave it behind while roughing it in Purnululu. Self contained donga style units with double and single beds are the epitome of basic, but it will have to do if you didn't bring your own accommodation. Sites start from $20-$28; Rooms start from $50-$135.

Warmun Art Centre

Warmun is an Aboriginal community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The town mostly consists of a roadhouse used as a stop off point for travellers heading to Purnululu National Park. The Aboriginal managed community has a population of around 400 people and is renowned for producing a number of internationally recognised artists. Warmun was previously called Turkey Creek after a nearby waterway, but is now named in the local Gija peoples language. Warmun Art Centre, +61 8 9168 7496 (sales@warmunart.com) . M-F 9AM-4PM. The centre is run by a thriving collective of artists who's work draws on traditional Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories and the more prosaic events of daily life. Painting is the mainstay, but recent diversions into prints, jewellery, sculpture and craft have bolstered their range. Natural ochres and pigments are used in paintings, lending them a decidedly earthy patina and craft items use local materials. The centre provides meaningful work and a source of independent income for residents and profits from artwork are returned for the communities benefit. A verbal invitation to enter the community and visit the gallery must be gained by calling beforehand. The town doesn't extend much further a few steps from than the roadhouse. The community itself is across the road from the roadhouse but travellers are prohibited from entering without an invitation. © source | courtesy of http://wikitravel.org/

Access to Turkey Creek Roadhouse

Turkey Creek Roadhouse - Warmun is on the Great Northern Highway, 200km south of Kununurra, 860km east of Broome and 160km north of Halls Creek.
• See the Kimberley Map.
• Turkey Creek Roadhouse to the Bungle Bungle Ranges 4x4 road

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Turkey Creek Roadhouse to the Bungle Bungle Ranges 4x4 road