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Off the Main Road Magazine

Real roads. Real stories. Real Australia.

Off the Main Road Magazine is a glossy, photography-led periodical for slow travel through the outback and regional Australia.

This isn’t a quick travel guide. It’s a magazine built to be looked at as much as read: full-page landscapes, rich colour, the kind of photography that makes you want to be standing right there in the red dirt or floating on the water. Every image was shot on the road, not sourced from a stock library.

We put an issue together every six months, once we’ve earned the stories worth telling.

Long-form features, real routes, real campsites, and photography that captures Australia exactly as we find it. Wherever we happen to be.

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Digital Single Issue

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Off the Main Road Magazine | Issue #1 The Outback Digital Edition

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Off the Main Road: Magazine, digital, latest issue.

Inside Edition #1:
A full journey from Alice Springs to Darwin along the Stuart Highway, the Heart of Queensland from Charleville to Cloncurry, the Min Min lights of Boulia, black opal in Lightning Ridge, and more.

Once purchased, you’ll receive instant access to read the full issue online, on any device.

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Off the Main Road Magazine | Issue #1 The Outback Print Edition

$30.00

Off the Main Road: Magazine, in print, latest issue.

Inside Edition #1:
A full journey from Alice Springs to Darwin along the Stuart Highway, the Heart of Queensland from Charleville to Cloncurry, the Min Min lights of Boulia, black opal in Lightning Ridge, and more.

Please allow up to two weeks for delivery of your printed magazine.

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Off the Main Road Magazine | Print Subscription (2 Issues per year)

$55.00 every 12 months

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One $10 shipping fee covers your whole year, both issues, so you’re never charged postage twice.

New editions every 6 months. Your subscription begins with the current issue at the time you subscribe.

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What's inside Issue #1: The Outback Edition

Chasing lights that shouldn't exist across a spinifex plain.

A wartime secret hiding in plain sight.

Black opal country and a castle built by hand.

These are just some of the stories that shape our country and inspired Off The Main Road Magazine

Long-form journeys along the routes we’ve actually driven. Traveller’s Notes for wherever you’re headed next. Campsite recipes worth cooking over a fire. Photography that doesn’t need a filter.

Edition 1: Outback Edition takes you through the beating heart of Australia, from red dirt plains to the remote gulf country. Come and explore Australia’s outback with us.

Edition 2: Coastal Edition is our next issue, from South Australia's coastline to Far North Queensland's tropical waters

Digital or print?

Choose digital if you want instant access, enjoy reading on a screen wherever you are, and like following links and the extra details that you don’t get with a print edition.

Choose a digital subscription to receive future editions automatically, locked in at today’s rate, with a growing archive to dip into anytime.

Choose print if you want something to hold, to keep on your coffee table, to pass around the caravan park.

Choose a print subscription to receive future editions automatically, locked in at today’s rate, sent directly to your door.

Your Questions, Answered

Once you subscribe, you get access to every issue currently available, plus every new issue we release for as long as you're subscribed. No need to buy each edition separately.
Yes, at any time.
Our Coastal Edition is now in production, with issues released every six months.
At this stage, unfortunately, we are unable to support international shipping for print editions. Our digital edition can be viewed online from anywhere in the world.

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Off the Main Road Magazine reaches a genuinely engaged audience of slow travellers, self-drive tourists, and people planning their next trip through regional and outback Australia.

We offer paid advertising for tourism operators, brands, and businesses, as well as in-kind partnership opportunities for accommodation and tourism providers along our routes.

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