The town serves the travellers on the Stuart Highway.
Today there is little evidence of the wolfram mining which took place in the area.
In fact the tour operators and the Tourist Information Office at Tennant Creek claim they don't even know if there are any ruins. Certainly there is no marked road out to the ruins. Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve Wauchope's great attraction is the 1828 hectare Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve which lies on either side of the Stuart Highway some 10 km north of the settlement. It is widely accepted that the 'Marbles', which are roughly egg-shaped, were considered by the local Aborigines to have been eggs laid by the Rainbow Serpent during the Dreamtime. They are, by any measure, a remarkable geological formation having been formed by spheroidal weathering.