Must-see attractions in Yorke Peninsula

  • Moonta Mines Museum

    Yorke Peninsula

    This impressive 1878 stone edifice was once the Moonta Mines Model School and had 1100 students. These days it's the centrepiece of the sprawling Moonta…

  • Wallaroo Heritage & Nautical Museum

    Yorke Peninsula

    Down by the water, the stoic 1865 post office now houses the Wallaroo Heritage & Nautical Museum. There are several of these little National Trust museums…

  • Watsacowie Brewing Company

    Yorke Peninsula

    Craft beer is everywhere in Australia these days, including agrarian Minlaton in the Yorke Peninsula's deep south. Watsacowie occupies a former woolshed…

  • Farm Shed Museum

    Yorke Peninsula

    Behind the Copper Coast Visitor Information Centre is this curious collection of old farming, mining and domestic bits and pieces. Well worth an hour or…

  • Innes National Park

    Yorke Peninsula

    Sheer cliffs plunge into indigo waters and rocky offshore islands hide small coves and sandy beaches, in this national park at the southern tip of the…

  • Troubridge Island Conservation Park

    Yorke Peninsula

    From the clifftops at Edithburgh, views extend offshore to sandy Troubridge Island Conservation Park, home to much birdlife including penguins cormorants…

  • Edithburgh Museum

    Yorke Peninsula

    In an old stone shopfront a few hundred metres from the town jetty (where, the 1920s, salt exports made Edithburgh the third-busiest port in South…

  • Stansbury Museum

    Yorke Peninsula

    Lording it over the local school yard (this used to be the headmaster's house), Stansbury's museum digs into the town's post-colonial history with a…

  • Barley Stacks Wines

    Yorke Peninsula

    Around 14km south of Maitland, Barley Stacks is further proof that you can make great wine pretty much anywhere in South Australia (below a certain…

  • Miner's Cottage

    Yorke Peninsula

    This fully restored 1870 mud-and-grass miner's cottage and garden is part of the sprawling Moonta Heritage Site, 1.5km east of town. It's typical of the…