DARLING RIVER RUN
The vast New South Wales outback covers more than half a million square kilometres. It’s big country under a wide blue sky, a land of austere natural beauty, rich in human history. Across its dusty desert expanse snakes the most famous of our outback waterways, the Darling River.
The river draws travellers in numbers that make tourism the third largest industry in the western catchment. Many travellers are creating their own frontier experience on a Darling River Run — a 750km pilgrimage through coolabahs and red gums from Bourke to Wentworth.
The Darling catchment is an ancient, weathered landscape in which the main channel formed about 140 million years ago. The river rises in the Great Dividing Range in Queensland and meanders southwest for 2740km to join the Murray at Wentworth on the Victoria border. It is joined by more than 40 tributaries along the way, although some, such
