Reviewed 17 October 2026
Guest posts are welcome. Folklore is not. 4x4 News is built for posting — including other people’s field notes — but the sourcing standard does not relax because the byline changed.
We want: a place you actually travelled, the agency pages that governed it, what the visiting-safely notes said, and what you observed without turning observation into a fake official closure. We do not want: tyre-pressure gospel presented as law, copied tow tables, ferry fares, or a paragraph that begins “the locals told us it’s always open in May”.
Pitch shape
Use the contact form with topic “Guest post outline”. Include:
- Working title and the URL room you think it belongs in (
/guides/,/blog/,/news/). - The official URLs (parks, BOM, roads, Traditional Owner pass).
- Dates you travelled, without inflating them into a “current conditions” claim.
- Conflicts: are you paid by a tour operator, a manufacturer, a park concession?
House style for what a good note looks like sits in what we publish. The longer briefing essay is on the blog.
Overnight this path already existed as /guest-post/. It stays. /guest-posts/ 301s here.
We will edit for accuracy, Australian spelling, and the no-invented-numbers rule. We will reject pieces that need a disclaimer on every line. That is not hostility. That is how a 4WD domain stays quotable.
What good looks like
A publishable note names the park, the permit you held, a dated observation, and the official URL for the next reader. House style: what we publish. Field capture: field-note checklist. Method: how to brief.
We will not invent a guest author for atmosphere. When a guest piece runs, it will carry a real name or it will stay a house checklist like the two notes already in this collection.
What we will not run
Product round-ups with prices. Tow tables. “Ten recovery kits ranked.” Live closures. Anything that treats a Traditional Owner visitor pass as optional colour. Anything copied from a manufacturer PDF with the logo filed off.
If you work for a tour company, say so. We may still run a tightly sourced explainer; we will not run a brochure.
Overnight this path was a stub that said “email a short outline”. That remains the idea. The form is on contact. The standard is higher than the stub.
On this desk
- Field-note checklist for contributors
A printable-in-your-head list of what to capture on a trip if you want the desk to be able to edit you later.
- What a publishable guest track note looks like
House style for guest copy: observation plus official citations, no invented people, no fee tables, no live closures issued from a kitchen table.
Questions the desk answers first
How do I pitch a guest post?+
Send an outline via the contact form with the destination, the official pages you will cite, and a list of claims you will not make. Do not send a finished 3,000-word piece stuffed with fees.
Do guest posts auto-publish?+
No. Everything goes through editorial review in Keystatic.
Official sources
Fees, opening hours and closures belong on the issuing site. We cite the page; we do not copy a price list.
Nearby on this desk
Pitch a guide, or ask the desk
4x4 News is built for posting: news notes, track guides, blog essays and guest copy. We will not invent a headline to fill the gap. If you have a sourced field note, send the outline.