Flinders Ranges National Park

The National Park encompasses nearly 100,000ha and incorporates a large proportion of the Central Flinders Ranges with rugged mountain scenery, tree-lined gorges, wildlife and seasonal wildflowers that burst into life after rains.

In this area you can marvel at the scenery of Edeowie and Brachina Gorges, Aroona and Bunyeroo Valleys, the Wilpena Pound and the Wilpena Station lands. Aboriginal art rock paintings can be found throughout the Flinders Ranges with fine examples at Yourambulla Caves, 10 km south of Hawker, Arkaroo Rock and Sacred Canyon, both near Wilpena Pound.

Wilpena Pound covers 83 square kilometres in the more remote, undeveloped northern section of the Flinders Ranges National Park - 400 kilometres north of Adelaide - Wilpena Pound rises as an immense, fusion of stark purple ridges and overhanging bluffs forming a natural amphitheatre, strewn with tough and colourful vegetation.

It can only be explored by foot, and is known to be an area of phenomenal bushwalking. When you reach the top, you look across the plain and can clearly see the hills around the edges. From the air it is a remarkable sight - you can see the brilliant yellow, pink and red of the Wattle, Sturt's Desert Pea, Flinders' Ranges Bottlebrush, Hopbush and Sturt's Desert Rose. It is also a birdwatchers paradise with ninety-seven species of birds catalogued in the area.