William Creek Hotel. This is a true outback pub and the only watering hole on the Oodnadatta Track between Marree and Oodnadatta. The proceeds from the parking meter go to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

William Creek Hotel - Oodnadatta Track visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'William Creek Hotel' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from South Australia.

William Creek Hotel is the only hotel in William Creek on the Oodnadatta Track. The settlement is named after a lake and a creek named in 1859 by explorer John McDouall Stuart after the second son of John Chambers, a pioneer pastoralist and a supporter of Stuart's explorations. It is the nearest settlement to Lake Eyre North, the largest salt lake on earth.

The tiny township was established as a railway watering and service point on the narrow-gauge Great Northern railway when it reached there in 1885. William Creek has an airstrip, a golf course, and is the closest settlement to Lake Eyre North.

The William Creek Hotel started out as a boarding house circa 1886, it is the only pub or 'waterhole' between Oodnadatta and Marree and is the only iron hotel left trading in South Australia. As an original pub it provides a rare insight into an aspect of outback history and is filled with unique momentoes left by thousands of visitors.

The William Creek Hotel offers accommodation, petrol station, tyre repair, camping grounds, bar and meals. William Creek is entirely surrounded by Australia's spatially largest cattle run, Anna Creek Station, which covers an area of 14,800 sq km. The Anna Creek head station is only 20 km from the township.

William Creek Hotel
William Creek
Oodnadatta Track,
5710, Australia

Car: circa 200km from Marree, 200km from Oodnadatta on unsealed Oodnadatta Track. It is 166 kilometres east of Coober Pedy.
Plane: Charter plane only