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Mount Isa from the air, with the mine and smelter stack

Small-group tours from Mount Isa

Our tours

Four tours of our own, from a two-hour city loop to the whole Isa in a day. Most include pick-up from your accommodation.

Prices in AUD, GST included. Subject to change.

A family riding the giant bird statues outside Outback at Isa, under the North West Tours sign

Morning · 2 hours

Best of Mount Isa

The Isa’s story from John Campbell Miles’ 1923 find to the working mine today.

Two visitors at the edge of the Mary Kathleen open pit, above its turquoise lake

Afternoon · about 4 hours

Old Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine

Walk the streets of a vanished uranium town, then stand at the edge of its open pit.

A couple watching the sun set over Lake Moondarra

Sunset · 3 hours

Lake Moondarra Sunset

A cold drink, a ploughman’s platter and the sun going down over Transport Bay.

A North West Tours guide showing a family the view over Mount Isa from the lookout

All day · about 11 hours

Discover Mount Isa (Full Day)

The whole Isa in one day — city, underground mine, fossils and sunset.

The view from the Mount Isa city lookout at sunset

Staying longer?

The Ultimate Isa Experience

Six of the Isa’s tours and attractions on one pass, used across up to a week.

  1. Best of Mount Isa City Tour
  2. Old Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine Tour
  3. Underground Hospital & Museum entry
  4. Hard Times Mine underground tour
  5. Bush Tucker Experience
  6. Isa Experience (self-guided)

More in the Isa

Run by other local operators, bookable through us.

Bronze miner statue at Outback at Isa

Outback at Isa — about 3 hours

Hard Times Mine Underground Tour

Suit up in miner’s gear and head underground through a purpose-built mine with working machinery and a traditional crib room.

A dromornithid fossil bone from Riversleigh

Outback at Isa — about 2 hours

Riversleigh Fossil Discovery Centre & Laboratory

See megafauna fossils from the World Heritage-listed Riversleigh fields and the lab where they are prepared.

The Underground Hospital and Museum building

Underground Hospital & Museum — about 30 minutes

Underground Hospital & Museum

A guided walk through the wartime hospital that local miners dug underground in their own time.

An antique glass ear syringe in a museum display case

Underground Hospital & Museum — about 1 hour

Twilight Tour by Hurricane Lamp

The Underground Hospital after dark, by lamplight.

Sunset over the outback ranges near Mount Isa

Not sure which one? Give us a call.

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