Camping in the Northern Territory

Reading the numbers

The Northern Territory has 102 campgrounds in the app, all from NT Parks and Wildlife, across 27 parks and reserves. Judbarra/ Gregory National Park has the most with 17, then Limmen National Park with 14, Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park with 11, Litchfield National Park with 10 and Nitmiluk National Park with 8. Finke Gorge, Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges and Trephina Gorge each have 4, and smaller reserves such as Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve and Channel Point Coastal Reserve make up the rest.

Fees and bookings are what this source records most consistently. A camping fee is listed for 101 of the 102 campgrounds (99%), and all 102 list an online booking page in the Territory's park bookings system. Expect to pay and book ahead almost anywhere on this page, including the canoe campgrounds along the gorges of Nitmiluk National Park (4th, 6th and 9th Gorge, plus 8th Gorge Campground) and the three Central Valley campgrounds in Litchfield National Park.

What the source does not give is facility detail. Not one of the 102 campgrounds has a toilet, drinking water, shower or caravan flag in this record, so the facilities column below shows nothing for any of them. That is a gap in the data, not a description of the sites: a missing flag means the source did not record the facility, not that the site lacks it. The names carry a few hints, such as the overflow campgrounds at Butterfly Falls and Didi Baba in Limmen National Park, or Chambers Pillar Bush Campground beside Chambers Pillar Campground, but the official park page is the only reliable guide to what is there and whether the track in is open.

Between parks, the app also lists 23 dump points, 211 rest areas from the national dataset and 57 water filling points in the Northern Territory, so you can plan where to empty, refill and stop on the way to the next campground. For the rules on where you may camp, read the Camping rules in the Northern Territory guide before you go.