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Ive Station - Apart from basic bush-camping areas in the national park, this working sheep station offers the only facilities for travellers. East along the Trans Rail Access track to Kingoonya dropping down into the Gawler ranges and Lake Gairdner area (of Bluebird fame). All have separate fenced sites and are well organised and set apart, giving plenty of space to avoid the neighbours.The Gawler Ranges are located north of Minnipa at the very top of the Eyre Peninsula, signposted off the highway after a seven to eight-hour drive from Adelaide via Port Augusta and Kimba. If the wildlife and geology aren’t enough to convince you to visit the Gawler Ranges, then the 4WDing and scenic drives should.

Gawler Ranges National Park. short walks adjacent to camping areas and you’ll encounter the rhyolite pillars which the area is renown for.Eyre’s opinion of the Ranges foreshadowed the boom-and-bust settlement by Europeans to follow. The Gawler Ranges are located north of Minnipa at the very top of the Eyre Peninsula, signposted off the highway after a seven to eight-hour drive from Adelaide via Port Augusta and Kimba.
Then up Googs track taking 3 days, camping at Googs lakes. Of course, access on the unsealed roads is more comfortable in a 4WD vehicle, but the family sedan will get around most of the park on the Old Paney Scenic Route without any trouble. Gawler Ranges Nation Park - The park is fairly new (2002) and protects the transition area of the mallee in the south and the arid zone in the north of the ranges.

Spot the wildlife If its animals you want, you can spot kangaroos, wombats, possums, hopping mice and the shy Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby (good luck), and some 140 species of birds throughout the park. But what they lack in ruggedness is more than made up for with picturesque rolling hills and magnificent ochre sunsets that you can have all to yourself at (almost) any time of year.On the way in, it’s worth stopping off at Pildappa Rock.
The main road through the park can be travelled in a conventional vehicle – with suitable ground clearance – but you’ll need a high-clearance 4WD to tackle the more exciting tracks to places like the Kolay Mirica Falls. This is the place to visit.The relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal people in this tough environment was often a difficult and ambiguous one.Nearly every campsite in the Park has a short walk to an Organ Pipes-like rhyolite outcrop, with a view.We found seven different camping areas to choose from, spread out across the Park.Another 2WD route comes in from Yardea Station and the privately run Hiltaba Nature Reserve in the north west.Clifford explained to us how local Aboriginal people used the rockholes at the tops of hills for human consumption only, covering them with pine branches or logs to keep animals out and evaporation down.Short walks to the Organ Pipes, Kolay Mirica Falls and Yandinga Falls stand out as the ‘must-do’ short walks, with most of them less than 500 metres in length.We found this the best for seeing wombats and other wildlife in mid-late afternoons.Instead, Aboriginal people relied on rock holes, soakages (ephemeral springs often formed by rock shelters buried in sandy creek beds) and ‘native wells’.Whenever you choose to visit, from all reports we’ve read and what we experienced, you can expect peace and solitude – along with the emus, kangaroos and wombats.It was apparent to us that this was tough country for anyone to survive in.Some are better suited than others for off road caravans – read the details on the SA Parks’ website here.A short (500m) walk in takes you to the formation.In 1839, explorer Edward John Eyre crossed the south west corner of the Gawler Ranges, naming them after South Australia’s governor at the time, George Gawler.We stayed at both Kolay Hut and Yandinga during our visit.From the south-east (Barns Road from Wudinna), you can choose Sturt’s Track (4WD recommended) which is approximately 30 km in length.We had both campsites to ourselves for the entire time we stayed.Unfortunately, the promised donkey boiler wasn’t working at Kolay Hut when we visited, but the campsite was peaceful and protected, nestled around a creek line.We had to stop counting wombats.Take a drive from mid afternoon onwards, and you’re surrounded.It wasn’t until Stephen Hack’s expedition of 1857, assisted by four local Aboriginal men (who he actually named in his diaries), that ‘useful’ pastoral land around what’s now known as Yardea, Poondanna, Kodondo and Paney was documented.Five years later, explorer John Charles Darke was speared by Aboriginal people in the southern part of the ranges, which brought explorations to a halt.Probably the best known place on the Park is the Organ Pipes.