Litchfield National Park is a great starting point to explore the Top End. Or the ideal homecoming. For me, it was the latter. After visiting Nitmiluk and Kakadu national parks, Litchfield would be my last hurrah adventuring in the Northern Territory.
Located just over an hour's drive south of Darwin (106km), the park is the territory's best-kept secret. The park is a convenient playground for city folk, perhaps often overlooked by travellers who venture further afield for adventure, sending their odometer into overdrive.
But Litchfield is one not to bypass. The smaller park — roughly 1500sq km — packs a punch with similar lures to those previously mentioned parks: paradisal waterfalls veiled by monsoon forest, natural pools, granite escarpment, and spring-fed streams. But Litchfield also has its own drawcards, oneofa-kind outback oddities: cathedral-like terminate mounds and a ‘lost city’ of battered boulders.
A visit to Litchfield is the perfect homestretch from adventures in the Top End. Even if you visit for a day or two, it's worthy to include it in your itinerary enroute to or from Darwin.
