Flinders Ranges Travel Tips

Flinders Ranges accommodation and shopping facilities

Flinders Ranges travel tips offers you more information to plan your Outback Australia trip.

By Outback standards, the Flinders Ranges has a good range of facilities to enjoy your Australian holidays. No need to worry about fuel and basic supplies, and no big distances between the places, again, by Outback standards.

• Angorichina Village

• Arkaba Station
• Arkaroola Village
• Blinman
• Hawker
• Leigh Creek
• Parachilna
• Rawnsley Park Station
• Wilpena Pound

Angorichina Tourist Village, Parachilna Gorge Road, west of Blinman. This is a well-equipped outpost with beautiful scenery around. Self-contained units & cottages, campsites, dorm-beds, store & fuel are available.

Arkaba Station, 23km north of Hawker. The station offers cottages, bed & breakfast, bush camping. Dean and Lizzie Rasheed conduct tours around their station.

Blinman  Population ~ 22

Blinman Hotel, offers modern accommodation in an historic building and a caravan site. The restaurant serves delicious meals.

The Blinman cottage, and the Captains cottage offer more accommodation in Blinman. Fuel and a general store are available.

The Wild Lime Cafe in the old school house has great food and an arts gallery.

Copley Caravan Park, just north of Leigh Creek. This caravan park in northern Flinders Ranges is already on the edge of the Outback. A small place with very friendly hosts, comfortable, tables and benches for your meal, public campfire to talk with fellow travellers, and even flowers in the shower block.

Hawker  Population ~ 300

The town has full facilities. Hawker is a good place to stay and explore the Flinders Ranges National Park.

Accommodation:

• Hawker Motel/Hotel, has rooms in the old hotel with shared bathrooms, and a motel section
• Flinders Ranges Caravan Park, Leigh Creek Road, large park opposite the railway station
• Big 4 Hawker Caravan Park, Chaceview Tce (Wilpena Rd), cabins, campsites, and a lovely BBQ area

Restaurants

• Old Ghan Restaurant, located in the old railway station, offers a range of local food like kangaroo and quandong desserts
• Sightseers Cafe, opp. the information booth

Shopping

• Hawker Shopping Centre, Wilpena Rd., has everything from mars bars to the essential tools a traveller might need
• Gloede’s General Store, Cnr Wilpena Rd & Cradock St has an extremely well-stocked camping supplies section
• Hawker Motors, service depot for RAA, spare parts, batteries, tyres, books and maps.
• Range View Motors, Wilpena Rd, is the Toyota agent

Visitor Information: Hawker Motors, Cnr. Wilpena & Cradock Roads. For the Flinders Ranges National Park: NP & Wildlife Office, Ph: (08) 8648 4244, Cnr Wilpena Rd & Elder Tce.

Leigh Creek   Population ~ 1000

Leigh Creek is a service town for the surrounding coalfields. Actually, the old town was moved to its present place in order to mine the coal.

Accommodation:

• Leigh Creek Tavern, air conditioned motel rooms and cabins. Check prices, availability, or book your Leigh Creek accommodation now.
• Caravan Park, booking and enquiries at Leigh Creek South Motors, Ph: (08) 8675 2016. the caravan park is out of town and offers powered & unpowered sites, ensuite cabins, standard & budget cabins.

Shopping and other services

• Foodland supermarket,
• Cooke’s Outback Motors (RAA),
• Open Cut Cafe,
• Leigh Creek South Motors, offers pulic phones, Toilets, Showers, Snacks, Internet, Spare Parts, Tyre Repairs, Windscreen Service, Minor Mechanical Repairs, Bottled Gas / Refills, Vehicle Accessories. Nearby Towing

The hotel also offers cabins for families, and accommodation in shearer's quarters on their working cattle station on the edge of Lake Torrens.

Here you can get the true Outback experience. The restaurant offers delicious "Flinders feral food", made from local ingredients. Try their roo-burger and quandong sweets.

Rawnsley Park Station, Wilpena Road, approx. 30 km north of Hawker. Rawnsley park station offers Eco-villas, holiday units, caravan park, a swimming pool, and a kiosk. The rugged scenery gives visitors a true bush feeling.

The woolshed restaurant offers country-style food. Guided 4WD tours are available, as well as scenic flights to Wilpena Pound.

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Wilpena Pound is one of the secrets of the Flinders Ranges Travel Tips.

The resort offers motel style accommodation, large campground with shady trees, mini supermarket, service station, public phone, bottle shop. Tours and scenic flights are available. There's an information centre to obtain useful information about the Flinders Ranges National Park, and to purchase the entry fee for the park.

"Captain Starlight" restaurant (bookings necessary) is open for breakfast and dinner, "Poddy Dodger’s" lounge bar & bistro is the place for a drink, a light meal, and a chat with other travellers.

The campground is a beautiful place to enjoy the famous Aussie sky at night. I thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Wilpena campground, although the nights were a bit frosty in September.

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