Mataranka Hotel Motel - Mataranka

The Mataranka Hotel Motel in the Northern Territory is located in the centre of town next to the Hotel where there are air conditioned dining and gaming rooms, a tropical beer garden, as well as ATM & EFTPOS facilities and off street parking.

Mataranka Hotel Motel offers several types of accommodation: Five Double rooms, Three Family rooms and Four Family Cabins. All units come with air conditioning, tea/coffee making facilities, fans and TV. There are no phones and pets are not allowed.

Things to see and do in Mataranka:

The small township of Mataranka sits on the upper reaches of the Roper River, an hour's drive south-east of Katherine. This tropical wayside stop is on the Explorer's Way tourism drive, the main artery that connects Adelaide and Darwin, and is renowned for its thermal pool, a sandy-bottomed lagoon fringed by palm forest and a rejuvenating swimming spot for locals and travellers alike.

Attractions around town include the Stockyard Gallery that exhibits local Aboriginal art, barramundi hand-feeding tours and the Never Never Museum that displays the local Aboriginal history. Canoeing and fishing are popular activities and swimming is great at Bitter Springs and the Thermal Pool.

The nearby Mataranka Homestead is a replica of Jeannie Gunns Elsey Station homestead. Jeannie Gunn was a pioneer who wrote a novel, We of the Never Never, about her life on Elsey Station at the turn of the century, which was made into a film in 1981, and the homestead is a journey back through Australian history.

Elsey National Park, eight kilometres from Mataranka, is another of the region's natural attractions. The massive Roper River slices through this 140 square-kilometre expanse, flowing through large waterholes then tumbling over rocks and tufa dams. Scenic riverside walking tracks to Mataranka Falls are a great way to explore the Park overland.

Finding Us

Mataranka is located on the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory, 107 km south of Katherine, and is renowned for its 34 degrees Celsius hot spring thermal pool.