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Current Track Conditions

Open. Via the Eyre Creek bypass. The old QAA ford is still reported impassable. Summer close 1 December to 15 March.

Stephan Fischer

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Current Track Conditions

Open

Via the Eyre Creek bypass. The old QAA ford is still reported impassable. SA park listed open. No current QLD Parks Munga-Thirri alert. Summer close 1 December to 15 March.

This page and AllOffRoad's access page use the same official sources. Check both states the morning you leave.

Last checked: 25 September 2026 at 10:00 am (Australia/Sydney).

Queensland

No current QLD Parks Munga-Thirri alert. Queensland Parks currently lists 159 park alerts. Munga-Thirri is not on that list.

QLDTraffic Central West as at 9:45am 25 September 2026: no closures listed for the district. TMR does not certify remote park tracks or creek fords.

The QAA Line camping page is live. The standard summer closure listed there is 1 December to 15 March. A live booking page is not a ranger telling you the park is open.

South Australia

Desert Parks Bulletin No. 877, updated 1st September 2026.

SA Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert NP is open; Witjira NP is listed open.

Open in this bulletin

  • Colson Track — Open
  • Poeppels Corner — Open
  • PAR 13 Halligan Bay Point — Open
  • PAR 8 Pedirka — Open
  • Witjira National Park — Open
  • Dalhousie Campground — Open
  • Three O'Clock Creek Campground — Open
  • Dalhousie Campground to Purni Bore — Open

Closed in this bulletin

  • Pedirka Track (on park) — Closed
  • Bloods Creek Ruin to Federal Waterhole Track — Closed
  • Dalhousie airstrip — Closed
  • PAR 2 Level Post Bay — Closed
  • PAR 3 Nuccaleena Mine — Closed
  • PAR 9 Warraweena — Closed
  • PAR 15 K1 Warburton Crossing — Closed
  • PAR 16 Walkers Crossing — Closed

Innamincka Regional Reserve and Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park remain listed closed due to flooding. That is not the Simpson crossing itself, but it matters if you are routing via the Strzelecki.

A Desert Parks Pass is mandatory to enter the SA Munga-Thirri – Simpson Desert National Park. The bulletin lists the Pink Roadhouse (Oodnadatta) and Mt Dare Hotel as pass agents.

Older wording still on the SA bulletin

Bulletin 877 still contains a sentence that Queensland was closed at the time of publishing. That is leftover wording from 1st September 2026. It is not today's Queensland Parks list, and it is not a second current status.

Unofficial local note

Mt Dare Hotel track notice, dated 1st of September 2026. This is not a parks agency alert.

  • Eyre Creek bypass reported open.
  • QAA line crossing reported still impassable.

Official sources

Machine-readable copy of this check: alloffroad.com.au/simpson-desert-access.json.