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Glenelg: beachside suburb offers plenty of variety for the visitor

The beachside suburb of Glenelg is the focal point of Holdfast Bay, the place where the founders of Adelaide first came ashore. The site of the Old Gum Tree where Governor John Hindmarsh proclamed the colony of South Australia on December 28, 1836 at Glenelg North is hallowed ground to the locals, and is appropriately marked with a monument. Close by, a replica of the vessel that brought the colonists to the Bay - HMS Buffalo - is a floating restaurant. A museum in the old Town Hall on Moseley Square tells the story of Glenelg; across the square is the iconic Glenleg Pier and beach, and the terminus for Adelaide's last tram service that still runs into the Adelaide CBD. Jetty Rd is lined with a mixed array of shops and eating places. Behind the beach is the Magic Mountain amusement park, built on the site of Glenelg's Luna Park, which fell victim to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the shadow of a ferris wheel is the grassed picnic area when, on Australia Day, 1966, one of the most intriguing mysteries in Australia's history - the disappearance of the Beaumont children - transpired.


Adelaide Hills: picturesque villages; boutique wineries, rich farmland, panoramic views of Adelaide

The villages of the Adelaide Hills hold a certain quaintness, no doubt because of their creators - German Lutherins who flocked to South Australia to escape religious persecution in the late 1830s. These settlers were to establish distinctly German villages at Klemzig, Glen Osmond, Lobethal, Blumberg (now Birdwood) and most famously Hahndorf. This pretty place is always abuzz with tourists and locals who eagerly soak up the town's olde worlde atmosphere as they sample its wares. Blumberg is one of the many examples of towns which changed their names as a result of intense anti-German feeling during World War I. It was renamed Birdwood after Sir William Birdwood who commanded the Anzacs at Gallipoli and the Fifth British Army in France. Its main attraction is the National Motor Museum housed in the old Blumberg flour mill. Neighbouring Goomerachi has placed itself on the Adelaide Hills tourist trail by building a giant rocking horse for visitors to climb or gaze at. The village of Lobethal hosts a stunning display of Christmas lights each December. Mt Mount Lofty Summit lookout in Cleland Conservation Park near Mt. Lofty Botanic Gardens at the mountain's summit has extensive views of the city.
Website. Location: some 30 minutes drive east of the city of Adelaide. How to get there: by car, numerous roads lead to the Adelaide Hills, such as North East Rd via Tee Tree Gully, South-Eastern Freeway via Mt Osmond and Greenhill Rd via Burnside. The Adelaide Hills is serviced daily by coach tours.


McLaren Vale: wine region on the southern doorstep of Adelaide

South Australia is noted for its excellent wines: many come from McLaren Vale, which is the closest wine region to the city of Adelaide. McLaren Vale is also the north-eastern gateway to the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Website. Location: 40 minutes drive south of Adelaide. How to get there: By road, travel south on the Main South Rd, then the Southern Expressway (M2) to the McLaren Vale turnoff at Noarlunga; by rail, train to Noarlunga Centre, then by bus No. 751 to the McLaren Vale Visitor Centre. Most coach operators run daily winery tours.


Fleurieu Peninsula: popular day trip destination, famed for its secluded, unspoilt beaches and wildlife.

What makes the Fleurieu Peninsula such an attractive place for visitors to Adelaide to add to their itinerary is that it is close enough to drive to and back comfortably in a day from Adelaide, with plent of time to spare to view its many attractions. The Peninsula is home to a colony of fairy penguins (on Granite island), has its own micro wine regions (Langhorne Creek, and Currency Creek), surf beaches (Waitpinga and Broiwns Beach) and is the stepping off point for the ferry trip to Kangaroo Island. Its two main towns - which are linked by a tourist steam railway - sharply contrast each other. Goolwa is an historic river port where the Murray River paddlesteamers of yesteryear terminated; Victor Harbor is the service centre for the region. In August, 1994 an image was thought to have become visible on a wall behind the altar of the 137 year old stone church of The Shrine of Our Lady in the Peninsula village of Yankalilla. It was interpreted as an image of the Virgin Mary, depicting her face and body. Two years after the image appeared on the wall, the press covered the story, bringing international tourists to the town.
Contacts. Food of the Fleurieu Peninsula website. Location: the peninsula commences some 50 km south-east of Adelaide. How to get there: by road, travel south on the Main South Rd or the Southern Expressway (M2). Take Inman Valley Rd at Yankalilla to travel direct to Victor Harbor (80 km south of Adelaide); or continue south on the Main South Rd for scenic drive to Victor Harbour via Cape Jervis (Kangaroo Isld ferry terminal).


Barossa Valley: one of Australia's premier and most famous wine regions

Though Australia's first wineries were located on the outskirts of Sydney, NSW, it was the wineries started by 19th Century German settlers in the Barossa Valley that put Australia on the world map as a producer of fine table wines. All the big name brands have wineries there - Seppelts, Penfolds (producers of the iconic Jacobs Creek wines), Orlando, Yalumba, Wolf Blass and Peter Lehmann - among lesser known brands, offering winery tours, tastings and cellar door sales. A bi-annual week-long Vintage Festival draws visitors from all over the world and has entertainment for all tastes including a huge street parade, concerts and gourmet dining.
Contact: 1300 852 982 (within Australia only) or (08) 8563 0600. Website. Location: 70 km north-east of Adelaide. How to get there: by road, either Main North Road (A20) to Sturt Highway via Gawler and the Barossa Valley Way, or via Lower North East Road (A10) through Chain of Ponds in the Adelaide Hills to Williamstown in the southern Barossa.

General Interest Attractions

Port Adelaide: a rejuvenated old port filled with interesting museums and historic buildings

This locality was originally known as Port Misery, because it was a mosquito-infested swamp when the first settlers landed there. In the post-war years, the name still seemed appropriate to the migrants arriving from Europe as the area was falling into decline as a result of containerisation, leaving its wharfing facilities abandoned. These days it has been cleaned up and given a new lease of life; the old terminal building next to the lighthouse bustles with life every market day (Sundays and Monday public holidays). The port is now home to the Dacou Aboriginal Art Gallery, a seashorse farm, the South Australian Maritime Museum, the National Railway Museum (one of, if not the country's best), the South Australian Aviation Museum, Australian Museum of Childhood and cruisers that take visitors dolphin spotting on Port River. The old pubs still serve up excellent counter lunches or the whole place seems alive again.
Website. Location: 20 km north-west of Adelaide. How to get there: by car, drive north along Port Rd; by rail, take the train to Port Adelaide station and walk north along Commercial Rd.


Haigh's Chocolates: factory tour of a leading South Australian chocolate maker
A visit to the Haigh's factory includes a 20-minute tour, access to a viewing area, heritage displays and chocolate tastings with free coffee or tea.
Contact: (08) 8372 7077. Location: 154 Greenhill Rd, Parkside, 5 minutes from the Adelaide CBD. How to get there: by car, via King William St and then Greenhill Rd; by bus No. 580 along Greenhill Rd or bus No 820 from stops on Grenfell St or Hutt St and then along Greenhill Rd.

Special Interest Attractions

Adelaide Festival Centre: the centre for performing arts in South Australia
A multi-purpose art centre that has numerous performance spaces and many art works throughout the complex. It is situated in the city centre beside the Torrens River and adjacent to Elder Park. The Festival Centre Plaza also serves as host to an outdoor collection of sculpture, including the prominent stainless steel Environmental Sculpture (also known as Tetrahedra), by Bert Flugelman.
Contact: (08) 8216 8600. Website. Location: Cnr North Tce and King William St, Adelaide.


National Wine Centre of Australia: a showcase for the wines of Australia
The wine education and tasting experience takes the form of an interactive journey beginning with the story of the wine making process (for authenticity, the centre has even planted its own fully functioning vineyard) through to tasting and appreciating the wines. The Concourse Café offers Australian wines to taste and purchase or meals from an à la carte menu.
Contact: (08) 8303 3355. Website. Location: University of Adelaide, Cnr Botanic and Hackney Rds, Adelaide. The National Wine Centre of Australia is adjacent to the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, in the north east part of the City. The pedestrian entrance is located on Botanic Road, the continuation of North Terrace. By bus, catch the free City Loop service (99C) around the city and stop at Botanic Gardens/East Terrace. The Botanic Road entrance to National Wine Centre is approximately 200 metres walk East.


Adelaide Oval: recognised the world over as one of cricket's most picturesque sports grounds.

The picturesque Adelaide Oval, which is the home of the game of cricket in South Australia, is situated close to the city centre in parkland. Tours of the complex are available Monday to Friday, non-match days, departing at 10 am (no tours on public holidays). Entry is $10.00 pp or free to members of the SA Cricket Association. Also at the Adelaide Oval is the SACA's Bradman Collection Museum of memorabillia (see below).
Contact:
(08) 8300 3800. Website. Location: King William Rd, North Adelaide. How to get there: walk north across King William Bridge, Adelaide Oval will be visible on the left.


Skycity Adelaide: the old Adelaide Railway Station is home to the state's only legal casino
Adelaide Casino is today known as Skycity, the change being made in recent times to get across the message to locals that the complex is in fact an entertainment centre and not just a casino. In winter there are free musical concerts and, at other times, a range of entertainments. Housed in a classic 1929 sandstone building that fits the image created by its owners as catering to the upper end of the casino market, which remains its core business.
Contact: (08) 8212 2811. Website. Location: North Tce, Adelaide.


Carrick Hill: historic home in the foothills suburb of Springfield

An historic home, built in the style of a seventeenth-century English manor house and set in extensive formal gardens and bushland. In addition to its extensive Tudor architectural fittings and oak panelling, Carrick Hill has an art collection of Australian, British and French paintings and sculptures, all surrounded by rose gardens and rare vegetation. Entry fees apply.
Contact: (08) 8379 3886. Website. Location: 46 Carrick Hill Drive, Springfield. How to get there: by car, proceed south-west along Glen Osmond Rd, right into Fullarton Rd, continue into Carrick Hill Drive at Springfield; by bus, No 173, alight at end of Fullarton Rd, walk along Carrick Hill Drive to Carrick Hill.


Ayers Historic House: home with displays honouring the life and work of Sir Henry Ayers, after whom Ayers Rock (Uluru) was named.
Ayers House is one of the finest examples of Regency architecture in Australia. Originally a modest house built in 1846, it was owned from 1855 to 1878 by Henry Ayers, for many years prime minister of South Australia. Ayers transformed it into an elegant 40-room mansion with a large new dining room and a ballroom. It is now the headquarters of the National Trust of South Australia and contains two excellent restaurants. The collection on display includes period decorative arts, furniture, silver and artwork as well as changing exhibitions.
Contact: (08) 8223 1234. Website. Location: 288 North Tce, Adelaide.


Old Government House and Garden: the former Vice-regal summer residence of some of the early governors of South Australia.
Dating from the 1850s and lying
in the heart of Belair National Park, Old Government House is a fully restored example of Victorian-style architecture and represents a significant period in the state of South Australia’s history. Surrounding the buildings is a re-designed mid-Victorian garden of Anglo-Italian style to complement the restored complex. It features cottage plants and flowers cultivated in Victorian times, heritage roses and mature trees.
Contact: (08) 8370 1080. Website. Location: How to get there: by car, south along Unley Rd, continue into Belair Rd past Windy Point Lookout into Sheoak Rd, right into Upper Sturt Rd at Belair Railway Stn, enter grounds via The Valley Rd. By rail; train to Belair Station. Walk south along Upper Sturt Rd, left into The Valley Rd.


Penfolds Magill Winery: suburban winery that is the home of the legendary Penfolds Grange.
This winery was founded in 1844 by Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold, and is the spiritual and historical home of Australia's most famous wine, Penfolds Grange. The winery conducts the unique 2-hour Great Grange Tour through the history winery, including the underground maturation cellars, and Grange Cottage, the Penfold family's original home. Guided tours operate every first and third Sunday of the month. All inclusive tour: $150.00.
Contact: (08) 8301 5569. Website. 78 Penfold Road, Magill. How to get there: by car, east along North Tce and Botanic Rd, right into Magill Rd, right into Penfold Rd.


Investigator Science and Technology Centre: interactive science centre in suburban Adelaide
This community centre aims to raise the awareness, understanding and appreciation of the role of science and technology in the world. The Centre's 30-minute science shows consists of hands-on demonstrations of scientific principles behind everyday occurrences. Entry fees apply.
Contact: (08) 8410 1115. Location: Rose Terrace, Wayville, adjacent to the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds. How to get there: by road, south from Adelaide CBD via West Tce and Goodwood Rd; by rail, train to Wayville Showgrounds station or Goodwood station.


Semaphore to Fort Glanville Tourist Railway: tourist steam train in Adelaide's northern beach suburbs

In the late 1890's a Military Railway was designed to run from Glenelg along the foreshore to Largs with the aim to link both Fort Largs and Fort Glanville. Part of that railway was rebuilt a century later as a tourist railway. Operated by National Railway Museum volunteers, it follows a 2 km coastal route from the Semaphore Jetty to Point Malcolm and the adjacent Caravan Park. The return journey takes nearly about 40 minutes. The service operates from 11 am to 4 pm on weekends from October to April.
Contact: Website. Location: How to get there: by road, north east from Adelaide along Port Rd or Torrens Rd, left into Grand Junction Rd; by rail, train to Glanville Station. Walk to Semaphore Beach along Semaphore Rd.

Galleries

SA Art Gallery: a major gallery housing the state's collection of works of art
Housed in one of Adelaide`s most beautiful, historic buildings, the Art Gallery has a fine collection of Australian art from the 18th century onwards. There is a particular focus on artists from South Australia. Some exhibitions have an entrance fee, otherwise admission is free.


Tandanya - gallery of the the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
The National Aboriginal Cultural Institute which was the first institute in Australia dedicated to Aboriginal culture. Tandanya houses a permanent collection of Aboriginal art together with temporary exhibitions and dance and theatre performances. The complex incorporates a giftshop, gallery and cafe.
Contact: (08) 8224 3200. Website. Location: 253 Grenfell St, Adelaide.


Dacou Aboriginal Art Gallery: an Aboriginal-owned and operated art gallery
An art gallery devoted to Aboriginal art and culoture, its collection has been drawn mainly from the Utopia region. Many of the artists travel down from the region to use the gallery's workshops to paint and finish art works. Their works are both exhibited and sold from the galley. Free admission.
Contact: (08) 8240 0499. Website. Location: 113 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide. How to get there: by car, drive north along Port Rd; by rail, take the train to Port Adelaide station and walk north along Commercial Rd.

Markets

Central Market: a colourful produce market in the centre of town.
Not the sort of place one would expect to attract tourists, but such is the case here. Its colourful lanes offer predominantly fruit, vegetables, small goods, meat and poultry, seafood, gourmet, cheeses and cakes. It has the taste and feel of an international melting pot of food and cultures, which is hardly surprising since it is on Gouger Street, where Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Malaysian, French, Argentinean and Indian fare is available. Asian cuisine dominates, and this is not surprising since Adelaide's Chinatown is right next door.
Contact: (08) 8203 7203. Website. Location: entry from Gouger and Grote Sts, Adelaide.

Zoos, Wildlife Sanctuaries

Adelaide Zoo: South Australia's largest zoo, and the second oldest zoo in the nation.
Beutifully located on the banks of the River Torrens just a few minutes walk from the centre of the city, Adelaide Zoo focuses on endangered and rare animals from continents which made up the super continent Gondwana - South America, India, Africa and Australia (also South East Asia). These regions represented in the Zoo’s major exhibits; South East Asian Rainforest, Seal Bay, Australian Rainforest Wetlands walk-through aviary, Africa, South America, India, Nocturnal House and Reptile House. Its sister zoo is the Monarto Zoo, a 1,000 hectare open-range sanctuary located 45 minutes (70 kms) from Adelaide.
Contact (08) 8267 3255. Website. Location: Frome Rd, Adelaide.


Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary: bushland wildlife park in the Adelaide Hills.
This sanctuary is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of Australian wildlife in South Australia. It includes the koala, red kangaroo, bilby, tamar wallaby, potoroo, platypus, eastern quoll, ringtail possum and southern brown bandicoot. The Sanctuary offers guided habitat, birdwatching and wetland walks, night walks and animal shows. Entry fees apply.
Contact: (08) 8370 9197. Website. Location: Stock Road, Mylor via Stirling, 18 km from Adelaide. How to get there: by car, via South West Freeway, take the Stirling exit, proceed 5 km along Longwood Rd and Stock Rd.

Adelaide's Eat Streets
  • Gouger Street, Adelaide - predominantly Asian, fresh and inexpensive seafood
  • Chinatown, Gouger Street, Adelaide - Chinese
  • Grote Street around the Central Market - wide range of cuisines
  • Rundle Street East End - café precinct with pavement dining
  • Hindley Street, City - restaurants with an emphasis on Middle Eastern cuisine
  • O'Connell Street, North Adelaide - wide range of dining options
  • The Parade, Norwood - wide range of cafés
  • Jetty Road, Glenelg - wide range of beachside cafés and restaurants
  • Henley and Semaphore - cafés, many with fish and chips to eat on the beach
  • King William Road, Hyde Park - stylish shops and cafés

Festivals And Events

January: The Tour Down Under
An internationally renowned annual cycling race attracting leading professional Eurpean teams. The 700 odd-kilometre race has six stages and is run in January each year.


January: Crush
The Adelaide Hills come alive as local wine producers team up with quality restaurants to exhibit and sell their wares, just 30 minutes drive from Adelaide.


February-March: The Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Adelaide Fringe is the largest arts Festival in Australia, and the second largest Fringe Festival in the world, after the Edinburgh Fringe. Widely regarded as one of the best festival events of its kind, the Adelaide Fringe features performances and exhibitions of some of the finest independent artists from around Australia and overseas. It is a unique and energetic celebration of all art forms - theatre, comedy, dance, visual arts, film and video, music and multi-media works.


February: Adelaide Film Festival
An unmissable international film festival.


March: Adelaide Festival of the Arts
Held biennially, this is one of the world’s greatest art festivals featuring opera, theatre, dance, music, cabaret, outdoor entertainment, visual arts exhibitions, master classes and incorporating Adelaide Writers’ Week (the largest literary festival in the world).


March: Clipsal 500 Adelaide
A four Day Major Adelaide Event, the Clipsal 500 Adelaide is recognised as the best event on the Australian motor sport calendar. It features full blooded V8 Action on city streets, air displays and other race catergories that set the scene for others to follow like Nations Cup and V8 BRutes, and finishing the day off with great after race celebrations and events.


March: WomAdelaide
This is considered the nation's best outdoor music event and next year it will celebrate its 11th anniversary in the city's stunning Botanic Park. Australia's only WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival, it will feature more than 40 amazing bands from across the globe, performing on seven stages, plus a workshop program, kids area, global village with unique crafts and food stalls and the WoZone Club.


March: Barossa Under the Stars
An amazing evening outdoor concert, in one of the world’s most famous wine regions.


April: Oakbank Racing Carnival
A Horse Racing event, it is held in the Adelaide Hills in "blue grass" Racing country - Oakbank is home of the Oakbank Racing Club, a Club which races just twice annually, Easter Saturday and Monday since 1876. Oakbank Racing Carnival - The world's biggest picnic race meeting. The cars come before dawn on raceday - up to 40,000 cars gerally turn up, and the Centre of the course becomes a place of fun and excitement.


May: Tasting Australia
Known for being one of the world's premiere food and wine destinations, foodies, food writers and wine enthusiasts alike flock to South Australia's capital to indulge in some of the very best culinary creations and wine selections the state has to offer.


June: McLaren Vale Sea & Vines Festival
About 20 wineries combine with top restaurants locally and from Adelaide. Providing musical entertainment are Adelaide's top bands, all with the backdrop of the picturesque hills of the Mount Lofty Ranges & the vines of McLaren Vale.


June: Adelaide Cabaret Feastival
This engaging festival runs for 16 days and bills top cabaret performances from all over Australia and the world. Some events are free and others charge, but all are of excellent quality, featuring the timeless arts of theatre, music, song and dance.


July: Adelaide Festival of Ideas
Held biennially, this event will surprise and provoke, inspiring you to ponder various ideas, themes and questions.


July: BMX World Championships
Elite and junior classes compete on tracks that demand considerable technical skills and jumps at Adelaide Showground.


September: The Royal Adelaide Show
South Australia's biggest annual event bringing with it a wealth of entertainment. Experiences range from carnival rides and attractions to exquisite handicraft, cookery and a wide variety of champion livestock, animals, wood chopping and a variety of ring events like the Grand Parade during the days and into the early night. There are also fireworks each night.


September: Bay to Birdwood Car Rally

A Classic run that sees more than 1,700 Classic motor vehicles wind their way through metropolitan Adelaide and into the Adelaide Hills. More than 100,000 spectators will line the 70-kilometre route to watch this motoring spectacle pass, from the breakfast start to the finish line in the Adelaide Hills at The Birdwood Motor Museum.


November: Classic Adelaide
Thise Road Rally Car event is run in the style and tradition of the Monte-Carlo Rally and the Mille Miglia in Italy. Adelaide attracts entries nationally and from around the world of pre 1970 sports cars. This event offers a unique opportunity to participate or view priceless vehicles travelling on Adelaide streets and country roads.


November: Feast Festival
Adelaide’s annual lesbian and gay cultural festival featuring a program of theatre, concerts, film, exhibitions and parties.

Parks & Gardens

Light's Vision: historic vantage point with sweeping city views

Legend has it that Surveyor Colonel William Light stood on Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide in 1837, pointed at what would one day become the central business district of Adelaide, and immediately began planning the city. This moment is commemorated by a statue of Light by Glaswegian sculptor Birnie Rhind on that spot, pointing at the City of Adelaide below. Light's vision of a city surrounded by parkland was realised and is evident from this vantage point. Light's Vision is a short walk from the city centre along Montefiore Rd.
Location: Cnr Ward St and Montefiore Rd, North Adelaide.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: only of Australia's oldest and most peaceful botanic gardens
When Col William Light layed out Adelaide, he set aside an area for a botanic garden. The gardens we see today were created on that site in 1857, its design said to have been influenced by those at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England and Versailles in France, together with certain German and Dutch stylistic influences. Even today, the Adelaide Botanic Garden has a northern European style, also reflected in its nineteenth century buildings. Today, the Garden specialises in scientific and educational displays of ornamental plants, both exotic and native. Features of the garden include the Bicentennial Conservatory, Museum of Economic Botany, Schomburgk Pavilion, the SA Water Mediterranean Garden, Palm House and the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion.
Contact (08) 8222 9311. Website. Location: North Terrace, Adelaide.


Black Hill Conservation Park: a natural bushland parks with extensive views
A rugged bush environment, the 684 ha reserve is bounded by steep ridges on its southern slopes, its prominent peak 465m above sea level has expensive vistas across Adelaide northern suburban area, Gulf of St. Vincent and Mt Lofty Ranges. The many walking paths along its ridges and gullies can be steep, but worth it for the views and scenery. Allow 3-4 hours for the 5 km round trip to the summit. The park adjoins Morialta Conservation Park, home to many activities, including bushwalking, bird watching and rock climbing. Ambers Gully and its waterfall cave are popular natural features. Picnic tables are located off the Orchard Track, Montacute Road and near the Winter Waterfall, Ambers Gully. A landscaped Wildflower Garden is located near the Addison Avenue entrance. A Black Hill brochure should be obtained before visiting Black Hill Conservation Park; or view the information board is located at the Addison Avenue entry.
Contact: (08) 8336 0901. Website. Location: 10 km north-east of Adelaide. How to gt there: by bus No.179 from North Terrace, Adelaide at various stops, disembark at bus stop 26, walk across the road to the main entrance gates on Addison Avenue.


Onkaparinga River Recreation Park: an estuary and wetlands park set around the mouth of South Australia's second longest river
This Park is part of the Onkaparinga River National Park, which encompasses an area from where the river enters a steep sided valley and flows into a gorge with cliffs up to 50 metres high and large permanent rock pools. The estuary and wetlands, where the river approaches and enters the sea, are an entirely different environment and it around them that the Recreation Park was created. Fishing, canoeing, rock climbing and photographic opportunities abound. Access to the gorge and wetland areas is via a number of easily accessed walking trails. Free admission.
Contact: (08) 8278 5477. Information sheet. Location: Main South Rd, Old Noarlunga, 35 kilometres south of Adelaide. How to get there: by car, via Main South Rd. Access to the estuary area is from River Rd. The park's main walking area is on the northern side of the gorge from Piggott Range Rd. Southern gates along Chapel Hill Rd provide access to the gorge area.


Brownhill Creek Recreation Park: the closest natural bushland park to the Adelaide city centre
Only 7 km from Victoria Square, Brownhill Recreation Park offers a narrow upstream journey through rural pioneer country. Brownhill Creek, flowing through a steep sided valley with majestic River Red Gums, was once a favourite camping, hunting and gathering ground for the Kaurna Aboriginal people. Later a quarry district (the giant blocks for the Outer Harbor breakwater were sourced here), its walking trails now lead to lookouts with extensive views across the plains. Interpretive panels explain the twisted rocklayers of the hillsides. Free admission.
Contact: (08) 8278 5477.
Website. Location: Brownhill Creek Road, Mitcham, How to get there: by car, proceed south-west along Glen Osmond Rd, right into Fullarton Rd, right into Old Belair Rd at Springfield, left into Brownhill Creek Road; by rail, train to Torres Park station, walk along Blythewood Rd to its end, right into Northbrook Ave.

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