Flinders Ranges Travel Tips

Where to stay & eat

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.

Listings for the Flinders Ranges travel tips are in alphabetical order. Use the Flinders Ranges map (opens a new window) and enjoy the planning.

Angorichina Tourist Village, Ph: (08) 8648 4842, 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, Ph: (08)-8648 4195, 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, Ph: (08)-8648 4867, offers modern accommodation in an historic building. The restaurant serves delicious meals. A campground with caravan sites, the Blinman cottage, Ph: (08) 8648 4874, and the Captains cottage offer more accommodation. 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, Ph: (08) 8675 2288, just north of Leigh Creek. This 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, Ph: 08-8648 4266, Leigh Creek Road, large park opposite the railway station
• Big 4 Hawker Caravan Park, Ph: (08)-8648 4006, 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, Ph: (08) 8648 4014, Cnr. Wilpena & Cradock Roads. For the Flinders Ranges National Park: NP & Wildlife Office, Ph: (08) 8648 4244, Cnr Wilpena Rd & Elder Tce.

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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, Ph: 08-8675 2025, air conditioned motel rooms and cabins.
• 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, Ph: 08-8675 2009
• Cooke’s Outback Motors (RAA), Ph: 08-8675 2618
• Open Cut Cafe, Ph: 8675 2056
• Leigh Creek South Motors, Ph: (08) 8675 2016, offers pulic phones, Toilets, Showers, Snacks, Internet, Spare Parts, Tyre Repairs, Windscreen Service, Minor Mechanical Repairs, Bottled Gas / Refills, Vehicle Accessories. Nearby Towing

Parachilna Hotel, Ph: (08) 8648 4844 - you won't expect luxury in such a remote place, but yes, you can spoil yourself in their deluxe rooms.

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, Ph: (08) 8648 0030 or (08) 8648 0008, 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 accommodation, large campground with shady trees, mini supermarket, service station, public phone, bottle shop. Tours and scenic flights. There's an information centre to purchase the entry fee for the Flinders Ranges National Park, and obtain useful information about the park.

"Captain Starlight" restaurant (bookings necessary), "Poddy Dodger’s" lounge bar & bistro.

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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