Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
Flinders Ranges
One of SA's most treasured parks, Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park is laced with craggy gorges, saw-toothed ranges, abandoned homesteads, Adnyamathanha…
Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
Flinders Ranges
One of SA's most treasured parks, Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park is laced with craggy gorges, saw-toothed ranges, abandoned homesteads, Adnyamathanha…
Flinders Ranges
Bush boffins rave about the steep, jagged Mt Remarkable National Park, which straddles the Southern Flinders and rises above little Melrose like a…
Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary
Flinders Ranges
A privately operated wildlife reserve–resort 129km east of Copley on unsealed roads, Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary occupies a far-flung and utterly…
Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park
Flinders Ranges
Blanketing 1282 sq km of desert, this remote national park has deep gorges, rugged ranges, yellow-footed rock wallabies and gum-lined creeks. Most of the…
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre
Flinders Ranges
Inside Peterborough's original rail depot, this excellent museum takes you back to the days of steam power, when 100 trains a day were shunting through…
Flinders Ranges
Much of Blinman's 150-year-old copper mine has been redeveloped, with lookouts, audiovisual interpretation and information boards. Excellent one-hour…
Flinders Ranges
Around 40km north of Hawker towards Wilpena, Arkaroo Rock is a sacred Aboriginal site (we don't need to lecture you about being respectful). The rock art…
Flinders Ranges
In Melrose, don't miss the amazing, decaying multistorey stone ruins of Jacka's Brewery (1878), which once employed 40 staff, in the backstreets. Bring…
Flinders Ranges
Iga Warta, 57km east of Copley en route to Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park on an unsealed road, is an Indigenous-run cultural centre and bush camp…
Flinders Ranges
It's not so much what's in Hawker that's interesting − it's more what's around it. But if you prefer your great outdoors to be indoors (and a bit…
Flinders Ranges
Around 27km north of Port Pirie, little Port Germein (population 370) is famous for it's enormous timber jetty. It was built in 1881 to enable large wheat…
Flinders Ranges
Snowtown, 79km south of Port Pirie, has a bad rep for some particularly grisly murders which transpired here a few years back. Far more uplifting is the…
Flinders Ranges
Feel like a dip? Put your memories of 'Shakka the Shark' at the Port Pirie Regional Tourism & Arts Centre to one side and jump off the jetty into the safe…
Flinders Ranges
There's a 1917 first-class railway carriage marooned in a car park on Peterborough's main street! Inside is an interesting history display, covering local…
Port Pirie Railway Station Museum
Flinders Ranges
A gorgeous piece of Victorian-era architectural confection (1902), this National Trust museum was once Port Pirie's railway station, and it remains the…
Flinders Ranges
From the Kanyaka ruins (41km north of Quorn on the Quorn–Hawker Rd), it's a 20-minute walk to a waterhole loomed over by the massive Death Rock. The story…
Flinders Ranges
Occupying an old courthouse (1862) and Melrose's former police HQ – from where the local cops once patrolled as far as the Northern Territory (!) – this…
Flinders Ranges
Out of town, derelict ruins litter the Quorn–Hawker Rd, the most impressive of which is Kanyaka, a once-thriving sheep station founded in 1851. From the…
Flinders Ranges
What was going on in Orroroo 500 years ago? If this giant river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) could talk, it'd be able to give us a first-hand…