A traveller who stopped to use an outback dunny south-west of Alice Springs ended up waist-deep and trapped in stinking excrement when the floor collapsed.

The Canberra woman was passing through the Northern Territory and stopped at the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve on Sunday.

While using the drop toilet, the rusty floor reportedly gave way, and she collapsed into the sewage pit, becoming stuck.

Her husband had no choice but to leave the woman in the revolting two-metre-deep pit while he and the kids drove to the nearest town, an hour away, to seek help due to the lack of phone signal.

“Just imagine being waist-high in the hole pictured…that is full of human waste and having to wait four hours to be rescued,” posted the Action for Alice Facebook page, which shared the horror story.

“This won’t feature in tourism brochures.

“A lady on holidays from Canberra coming back from visiting relatives in Darwin with her family – husband and two kids.

“Stopped off at Henbury Meteorite Craters on the Giles Track and went to the toilet.

“The lady was stuck waist-high in waste. Deep s–t and nappies.

“She had to be rescued by a tradie who happened to be pulling up there with his friend from Sydney, a tradie from Alice Springs.

“[The] tradie had his tools in vehicle. He ripped walls and fences down to hook up his D-Max four-wheel-drive and eventually winched her with some snatch straps out of the s—ter.”

The woman had to be rescued from the toilet hole. Photo: Facebook

The woman was later evaluated at Alice Springs Hospital.

Action for Alice posted pictures of the offending toilet and said it was symptomatic of the “decaying infrastructure of NT tourism.”

“Somebody’s in a lot of s–t for this one, pardon the pun.”

The story drew hundreds of comments, with many expressing a distrust of such rudimentary public amenities.

The toilet has been tapped off. Photo: Facebook

“I have used many ‘long drops’ during my life, and never considered that this might happen. I can’t even begin to imagine how revolting, and scary, this would have been,” said Mynie Brown.

“Thank goodness for the Alice Springs ‘tradie’ and his friend. I hope she had access (somehow) to plenty of water to wash her straight down, before getting her into a car.”

Said John Collins: “Come for the tourism, Stay because you’re chest high in sewage.”

The Henbury Meteorite craters. Photo: NT Tourism

Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is 145 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.

The reserve contains 12 craters formed when the Henbury Meteor disintegrated before impact.

There is a self-guided walking track around the craters, the largest of which is 180 metres wide and 15 metres deep.