Must-see hotels in Flinders Ranges

  • Prairie Hotel

    Flinders Ranges

    The Prairie Hotel (1905) has slick suites out the back, plus camping and basic cabins across the street. Don’t miss a pub meal (mains breakfast $8 to $28,…

  • Great Northern Lodge

    Flinders Ranges

    This impressive operation comprises six buildings, with all kinds of accommodation configurations: private motel-style doubles, double bedrooms off a…

  • Rawnsley Park Station

    Flinders Ranges

    This rangy homestead 35km from Hawker on the southern fringes of Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park offers everything from tent sites to luxe eco-villas,…

  • Quorn Caravan Park

    Flinders Ranges

    Fully keyed-in to climate change, this passionately run park on Pinkerton Creek is hell-bent on reducing emissions and restoring native habitat. Features…

  • North Star Hotel

    Flinders Ranges

    As welcome as summer rain: the North Star is a noble 1854 pub renovated in city-meets-woolshed style. Sit under spinning ceiling fans at the bistro (mains…

  • Arkaba Station

    Flinders Ranges

    Flashy outback station accommodation in an 1850s homestead, between Hawker and Wilpena: it's an exercise in contemporary bush luxury. Rates include chef…

  • Arkaroola Resort

    Flinders Ranges

    The resort within Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary includes a motel complex and caravan park. Camp sites range from dusty hilltop spots to creekside corners…

  • Savings Bank of South Australia

    Flinders Ranges

    Bank on a good night's sleep at Quorn's lovely old red-brick bank, a two-storey, two-bathroom, three-bedroom conversion of this 1906 charmer. It's a…

  • Flinders Bush Retreats

    Flinders Ranges

    Working hard to crack into the booming Flinders station-stay market, Flinders Bush Retreats offers private bush camping, a restored early-1900s stone…

  • Angorichina Station

    Flinders Ranges

    En route to Arkaroola from Blinman, Angorichina Station offers shearers-quarters beds, camping and a lovely self-contained homestead cottage. It's a…

  • Meaney's Rest

    Flinders Ranges

    Built in 1883, Meaney's is an elegant three-bedroom stone house near the centre of town, with burgundy-painted trimming and a little grapevine doing its…

  • Under The Mount

    Flinders Ranges

    Run by some mountain-biking doyens, casual, rambling Under The Mount features six en-suite doubles, two six-bed dorms and a communal kitchen inside, and…

  • Finlayson's at Blinman

    Flinders Ranges

    On Blinman's innocuous little main street, Finlayson's is a contemporary self-contained house sleeping up to nine (three bedrooms), with a full kitchen,…

  • Wilpena Pound Resort

    Flinders Ranges

    Owned and managed by a local Adnyamathanha business group, this far-flung resort has lost considerable sheen of late (maintenance standards have slipped,…

  • Grindells Hut

    Flinders Ranges

    With a wrap-around verandah, remote Grindells Hut is a 1950s stone cottage sleeping eight people, with kitchen, laundry and bathroom. It's within…

  • Alpana Station

    Flinders Ranges

    Around 10km south of Blinman on the road to/from Wilpena, Alpana is a working sheep station (merino wool) offering powered sites, bush camping, self…

  • Melrose Caravan Park

    Flinders Ranges

    Bounded by five acres of bush camp sites, this tidy park has self-contained cabins salvaged from the 2000 Sydney Olympics (all with TVs and cooking…

  • Upalinna Station

    Flinders Ranges

    Just 6km north of Wilpena on the Blinman road, Upalinna is yet another Flinders sheep station offering atmospheric bush camping (we get the feeling the…

  • Bluey Blundstones

    Flinders Ranges

    Behind the Melrose blacksmith's shop (1864), marvellously decaying on the main street, Bluey comprises a renovated two-person stone cottage, a four-person…

  • Rose Cottage

    Flinders Ranges

    No sign of any roses in the garden of this restored 1870s whitewashed pug-and-pine miner's cottage on Blinman's main street – it's far too hot and dry…

  • Pichi Richi Park

    Flinders Ranges

    This tidy congregation of cabins rests in quiet contemplation 14km south of Quorn, off the road to Port Augusta. Pitch a tent, park your van, or check…

  • Ellen Hotel

    Flinders Ranges

    Port Pirie has a bunch of cookie-cutter motels on the road into town, but the Ellen is a much sassier prospect, decked out in black-and-white like some…

  • Flinders Ranges Motel

    Flinders Ranges

    Alongside an improbably photogenic old mill building at the southern end of Quorn's main street (fronting onto a not-so-photogenic gravel car park), these…

  • Stone Hut Cottages

    Flinders Ranges

    If you're rolling north from Adelaide or south from the Flinders and the sun is sinking, about 10km north of Laura you'll find tiny Stone Hut (population…

  • Hawker Caravan Park

    Flinders Ranges

    At the Wilpena end of town, this upbeat, fastidiously maintained acreage has generous gravelly sites (grass, out here?) and cabins sleeping up to six. And…

  • Balcanoona Shearers' Quarters

    Flinders Ranges

    An eight-bedroom former shearers' facility, with communal kitchen; sleeps 19. It's within Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park. Book online before you…

  • Outback Motel

    Flinders Ranges

    Like a transplanted vision from the Utah desert, this orange-brick, drive-up motel offers passable motel rooms in downtown Hawker. The two-bedroom units…

  • Copley Caravan Park

    Flinders Ranges

    The proudly maintained Copley Caravan Park is a small, immaculate park (not a whole lotta shade, but hey, this is the desert); regular bonfire cook-ups…

  • Leigh Creek Outback Resort

    Flinders Ranges

    The tavern in Leigh Creek is hanging in there, rebranding itself as a 'resort' offering jaunty '90s-style motel rooms, basic cabins and miner-sized bistro…

  • Hawker Hotel-Motel

    Flinders Ranges

    The town's old pub (love the vintage Dewar's Whisky sign!) has meals in the bar and a low row of no-frills motel rooms off to one side. Back from the dead…

  • Quandong Apartments

    Flinders Ranges

    These two self-contained apartments (sleeping up to four) have full kitchens, big TVs, quality linen and chintz-meets-Asian touches. Rates come down for…

  • Angorichina Tourist Village

    Flinders Ranges

    ‘Real people only, no Yuppies’ is the slogan at Angorichina Tourist Village, midway between Blinman and Parachilna. It’s a shambling joint with a mix of…