 In order to make your Outback NSW touring experience the best it can possibly be, we have produced an extensive "Darling River Run Map and Guide". |
Welcome to Outback NSW
NEW! - The NSW Outback is a landscape of great beauty which will take your breath away with its grandeur and its drama. It will wrap you up and persuade you to return over and over again because there is nowhere else on earth quite like it. Art, culture, history and waterways are a few of the surprises that can be found in places like Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge (Black Opals), Bourke, Cobar, Wentworth and Corner Country.
The 'backbone' of this wonderful region is the magnificent Darling River which provides the lifeblood for the unique flora and fauna in the area and was once the great inland highway running from Brewarrina to Wentworth.
A trip to Outback NSW will leave you with lasting images of the great Australian landscapes.
Outback NSW.... put yourself in the picture!
One of the best ways to really experience the best of what our wonderful National Parks have to offer is join one of the many Discovery guided tours. Ideal for all ages – especially school children – the Discovery tours in the Far West are run by National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) staff during the Easter, Winter and Spring school holidays. They highlight the Aboriginal, Pastoral and Natural heritage of our region and can provide valuable insight and enjoyment to your National Park experience. Parks participating in Discovery Tours are Kinchega, Mungo and Paroo Darling National Parks. School and interest groups can request tours to be run out of season by ringing the local NPWS office.
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The iconic towns of Outback NSW will welcome you with the country hospitality that is synonymous with rural Australia; whether stopping for a break or staying a few days to explore the surrounding area. 
A recent initiative Outback NSW Tourism has been The Darling River Run. The Run has long been one of NSW's great drives and the work of many before has been consolidated and built upon to properly formulate this great tour down Australia's iconic Darling River; the intent of the project is to provide all the information needed to experience and learn about one of Australia's great Outback regions and enable the opportunity to undertake a great driving adventure.
Outback NSW not only has some of the best National Parks in NSW but also Australia; these well managed parks are as diverse as the area itself. From the haunting ‘Walls of China’ at Mungo National Park (Lake Mungo), the evocative riverland along the Darling at Kinchega NP, thespiritual landscape found at Mutawintji, to the remote outback expanses of Sturt National Park.
Often referred to as the ‘accessible outback', Outback NSW is not just a destination but a journey through time, history, cultures, and spirituality.
Outback NSW is full of wonderful tours, drives and side-trips (marked in Green in the map); sealed road drives to rugged off-road and everything in between. Read more...
Central Darling Shire encompasses an area of over 53,000 square kilometres, making it the largest Local Government Area in NSW. Conversely, population figures for the Shire are one of the lowest at 2000 residents dispersed throughout and surrounding the towns.
The Hay Shire terrain is largely a flat, almost treeless saltbush plain offering a magnificent 180 degree skyline which at night becomes a canopy of stars as far as the eye can see. The Shire incorporates the town of Hay and the villages of Booligal, Maude and One Tree.
Regional Express (Rex) is Australia’s largest independent regional airline operating fleet of 40 Saab 340 aircraft on more than 1,200 flights weekly to 23 regional destinations from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Tourism NSW, a part of the Department of State & Regional Development, provides funding support for Outback NSW Regional Tourism Organisation through the Regional Tourism Partnership Funding Program.
Bogan Shire, in Western NSW, has an area of 14,610 square kilometres, about 1.8% of the State's land surface. The geographical centre of NSW lies within the Shire’s boundaries. Nyngan, the Administrative Centre, is located on the Bogan River at the junction of the Mitchell and Barrier Highways with an estimated population of 2500. 
Bourke is a wonderful community established in 1861 on the banks of the Darling River.
The quiet town of Balranald is located on the Murrumbidgee River 859 km from Sydney.
Broken Hill is a thriving community on the edge of the NSW Outback. With a population of over 20,000 people it is the economic and cultural hub of Far Western NSW; A thriving mining and mineral industry and over 300,000 tourists per year.
Our XPT and Xplorer trains provide a safe, comfortable and relaxing way to travel while sitting back in air-conditioned comfort watching the magnificent Australian landscape roll by.
Outback NSW have some of the most majestic parks in Australia all of which a carefully managed by the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service.
Brewarrina was one of the great inter-tribal meeting places of eastern Australia with the fish traps, sustaining thousands of Aboriginal people during tribal gatherings
Wentworth Shire surrounds the confluence of the Darling and Murray Rivers.
Walgett Shire embraces the fertile black soil plains of northern New South Wales.
There are many ‘must see’ destinations in Australia and Lightning Ridge is certainly that; home of the beautiful Black Opal and like the wonderful gem, Lightning Ridge shows its varying colors depending on how you look at it.
Recently appointed as the Outback NSW Ambassadress, Donna communicates the benefits of travelling in your own country and discovering rural and outback Australia.