Ross River Resort

Ross River has a variety of attractions and activities for you to enjoy. Abundant birdlife, Bushwalking, Sunsets

Announced NTNews 09.09.2024 closed to public just available upcoming functions.

A tourist facility formed around the original Loves Creek Homestead built in 1898 by the pioneering Bloomfield family as a working cattle station.

Ross River Resort offers:
• 1.4km airstrip and helipad

Contact:
• Ross River Resort
• Toll free 1800 241 711
• Phone +61 8 8956 9711
• Fax +61 8 8956 9823
• Mail PO Box 3271 Alice Springs • Northern Territory 0871 Australia
• Email rrr@rossriverresort.com.au
• Web www.rossriverresort.com.au

N’Dhala Gorge Nature Park is located 90 kilometres East of Alice Springs, via the Ross Highway and is accessable by four-wheel drive only. This shady gorge contains a wide range of rock carvings and paintings. There are well over 6,000 individual petroglyphs (prehistoric carvings) as well as art sites and shelter sites. One way that Petroglyphs were created was by holding a sharp stone against the rock and striking it with a heavier stone.

The petroglyphs are either of the finely pecked or the pounded varieties that are thought to represent two different time periods. In addition to being culturally significant, N'Dhala Gorge is noted for containing rare plants such as the peach-leafed poison bush and the Undoolya wattle.

The petroglyphs are of two styles, the finely pecked and the pounded. They possibly represent two time periods.It is difficult to estimate the age of the art. Most were probably done within the past 2,000 years, but some could be as old as 10,000 years. Aboriginal custodians for the site, now living in Santa Teresa, indicate that some of the designs are connected with a Caterpillar Dreaming story.

Address: 90 kilometres east of Alice Springs via Ross Highway
Alice Springs Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Telephone +61 (8) 8951 8250 Fax +61 (8) 8951 8290

Recreational Activities

Walking - A 1.5 km (1 hour return) marked walking track leads into the gorge. Signs along the track interpret some of the petroglyphs and the rare Acacia undoolyana.

Parks NT walking maps

Photographs Courtesy Of: NTTC - Northern Territory Tourism Commission.
Maps Courtesy Of: NTTC - Northern Territory Tourism Commission.
Photographs Courtesy Of: PJ B & M Hutchinson Private Collections
Information courtesy of Parks and Wildlife Service NT for the promotion of tourism for the Larapinta Trail.

Photographs Courtesy of NTTC - Northern Territory Tourism Commission
Information courtesy of Parks Northern Territory

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