This easy 4wdrive dry weather only trip of 270 km starts in the ACT near the Cotter dam west of Canberra and passes through the Brindabella ranges. It follows Brindabella Road then turns right onto Two Sticks Rd traversing areas devastated by the Canberra bush fires. It is an interesting and scenic track twisting below Devils Peak and the Mt Soree fire tower. It then rejoins the Brindabella Rd at Picadilly Circus and follows it for around 35 km where a left turn is made into Barnetts Rd then Bramina and Boundary Rds where the Broken Cart Trail is reached after another 28 km, during which the Kosciuszko National Park is entered.

The trails are seasonally closed during winter. A further 20 km and the Broken Cart Trail joins the appropriately named Long Plain Rd where often brumbies are seen in large numbers. Along Long Plain Rd are detours to Blue Water Holes with its limestone caves and Coolamine Hut, Cooninbul Hut and Long Plain Hut which were in the past used seasonally as cattlemen’s huts.

All are historically important and rewarding visits if time permits and you will find no finer camp site than the Blue Waterholes. Not far away is the Yarrongabilly caves where regular guided and self guided tours of these limestone caves are conducted. After Long Plain Hut the upper reaches of the Murrumbidgee River is crossed on the Port Phillip Fire Trail which heads east and crosses the floor of the usually empty Tantangra Reseviour.

The restored Currango Homested is worth a visit before heading south, passing Tantangara dam wall on the way to the Snowy Mountains Highway and then Providence Portal on Lake Eucumbene where this trip ends.Map Hema South East NSW (Paper and Digital)