Rest Area Toilets in Northern Territory

Northern Territory records 15 of Australia's 602 public toilets at highway rest areas — 2% of the national total. That makes it the fifth-largest state total, behind New South Wales (269), Queensland (134), Western Australia (84) and Victoria (74). They sit in 13 named towns.

Davenport (2) and Ghan (2) carry the most between them. Those 2 account for 4 of the 15; a further 11 towns record exactly one.

Among them are Anmatjere Rest Point on Stuart Highway, Bridge Creek Rest Area, Mount Conner Lookout and Tropic of Capricorn.

Of the 15, all have parking on site, all are published as open 24 hours and 1 has drinking water. None of them has a shower. They are 5% of the 327 public toilets recorded in Northern Territory, and 11% of the round-the-clock ones.

5 of the 15 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — including SA/NT Border Visitor Information Bay and Mathison Rest Area.

All 15 are published as open 24 hours — such as Tailor Creek Rest Area and Saddle Rest Area.

None of them are recorded as charging for entry. Rest area entries come from the highway stopping places in the National Public Toilet Map. The dataset records the toilet, not the bay: it does not say whether a site is signposted for heavy vehicles, how long you may stay, or whether the stop is lit at night. Every figure here is counted from the National Public Toilet Map, which operators and councils update at their own pace.