Before you go: seasons and heat, the two pass systems, camping, closures, and the rules that are actually enforced.

• The Uluṟu Park Pass: What It Covers, and What It Does Not

  One pass, three products, and an exclusion that catches visitors. Coverage and the purchase mechanism, with the charge left to the authority.

  4 min

• Two Pass Systems, Not One

  Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa runs a Parks Australia pass. Watarrka runs a separate NT pass. Neither covers the other.

  3 min

• When to Come: Four Seasons, Four Different Trips

  May to September is the easy answer. The other three windows are trades, and the trade is legible.

  4 min

• This Is Someone's Country, Not a Backdrop

  What Aṉangu joint management means in practice, and the handful of requests the park actually makes of visitors.

  4 min

• Where You Actually Sleep Near Uluṟu

  There is nowhere to camp in the park. Here is what the alternatives are, and how far each sits from the entry station.

  4 min

• Is the Road Open? Three Registers, Three Answers

  Highway, unsealed road and park closure are three different systems with three different publishers. How to read all of them.

  4 min