At this time of year, Anangu and Pitjantjatjara woman Verna Wilson is used to seeing her backyard full of tourists flocking to see one of Australia's great landmarks.

Key points: Mutitjulu locals are enjoying a rare quiet time with family inside the park

Mutitjulu locals are enjoying a rare quiet time with family inside the park Though they are enjoying the peace, locals say they are sad to see the park without tourists

Though they are enjoying the peace, locals say they are sad to see the park without tourists Some locals are seeing parts of the park for the first time

But now, with Uluru closed due to coronavirus, the vast backyard of families like Ms Wilson's in the remote community of Mutitjulu is deserted.

It's a new reality Ms Wilson says is bittersweet.

While she was sad to see no tourists in the park, Ms Wilson said she was also enjoying the peaceful time gathering in the park with family.

"It's good to be going around to the rock when no-one is around there," she said.

"I'm enjoying taking kids out and being happy all day, like all day and the next day."

Verna Wilson with the damper she made for her family, at an area off the tourist track at Kata Tjuta. ( Supplied: Jowel Hyne )

Since early last week the Mutitjulu Community Aboriginal Corporation has been working with community groups to take small family groups from the same household into different locations within the park to enjoy the sudden quiet time.

The small groups have been having picnics with cooked kangaroo tail and damper, as well as taking walks looking for bush tucker.

"We went yesterday to Kata Tjuta and sat down and [told] a lot of stories with the kids and we came back happy," Ms Wilson said.

"The kids love for me to go [with them] and find witchetty grubs and honey ants."

But Ms Wilson did say the sudden disappearance of tourists in the park had not gone unnoticed by the children now discovering their country in a new light.

"[It's] sometimes sad for tourists not to come and visit the rock," she said.

"[The] kids are missing them and sometimes I take the kids out and they always tell me, 'oh what happened, [there are] no tourists', and I keep saying, 'they'll come back'."

Tristan Cooley, Janelle Taylor, Rosalinda Taylor and Zacharia Cooley at a Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park lookout. ( Supplied: Jess Matteson )

'Never seen that side of the rock before'

Maruku Arts tourism manager Dahna Edwards said the initiative had been hugely popular with local families.

She even said some of the participants were seeing parts of the park for the first time in their lives.

"At the start of the program we took one of the young girls over to the Mala walk, which is a really popular tourist track at the base of Uluru," Ms Edwards said.

"She's from Mutitjulu but also lives between Docker River and Pukatja [Ernabella], and she had never seen that side of the rock before with the cave art in there and [had] never walked up and down that track."

Kangaroo tails cooking at a popular tourist lookout at Kata Tjuta. ( Supplied: Siret Niit )

Ms Edwards said she hoped the program, which is only funded until the end of the school holidays, will receive more funding so it could continue for the duration of coronavirus restrictions.

Organisers say the activity is following all social distancing protocols.

Territorians are advised not to gather with more than two people, except with those within their immediate household, if they need to travel outside the home.

If anyone leaves a remote community or biosecurity area, they need to self-isolate for 14 days before they can return, but there are no additional quarantine requirements for movement within the boundaries of a designated biosecurity area.