Curtin Springs Wayside Inn

Peter Severin arrived at Curtin Springs in 1956 with his wife Dawn and their toddler son Ashley, in a Vanguard car and a Bedford truck. Ashley still runs the station now with his wife Lyndee; it's 416,000 hectares of working cattle country at the foot of Mount Conner — the mesa most travellers mistake for Uluru on the drive in. Twenty-seven rooms across ensuite and budget tiers, a free campground, fuel, and meals at the Wayside Inn. Lyndee started Curtin Springs Paper in 2014 — handmade paper made from native grasses harvested on the station, now sold from the Gallery at the Old Abattoir alongside a jewellery line. Stargazing experiences and salt lake walks operate from the property. Closer to Uluru than to anywhere else.