Ultimate Backroads & Detours: Australia
by Lee Atkinson

Skip the main highway and take the road less travelled. In her latest guide, veteran travel writer Lee Atkinson maps out 35 of the best backroad trips and detours the country has to offer, steering you toward the routes most tourists never find. 

Drawing on state-by-state picks, the book showcases wildlife encounters, local food worth stopping for, striking landscapes, and small-town treasures along roads both well-known and obscure, from South Australia's Flinders Ranges to Queensland's Pioneer Valley, NSW's Bucketts Way, the Kimberley Coast and even a stretch nicknamed the Road to Nowhere. For travellers chasing something longer, three interstate itineraries string multiple routes together into an epic cross-country journey. 

Every trip comes with a drive difficulty rating, a snapshot of highlights, and practical details like drive times and weather conditions, so you know exactly what you're in for before you turn the key. It's designed to work for anyone behind the wheel, from solo travellers to family adventurers.

Written by one of Australia's most experienced travel writers, who has been covering the country's roads for newspapers, magazines and guidebooks since 1991, this is the ideal companion to Atkinson's other bestselling titles, Ultimate Road Trips: Australia and Ultimate Coastal Road Trips: Australia, and essential reading for anyone plotting their next great Australian drive.

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