Trip Guides
Ready-made day trips and weekend itineraries through Yorke Peninsula. Follow one of these stop-by-stop, or save it to your own itinerary and adapt it.
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A wild day in Innes National Park
Cliffs, shipwrecks, lighthouses and a ghost town, all in a single big day at the bottom of Yorke.
Innes National Park packs surf breaks, sheer cliffs, a gypsum ghost town and two lighthouses into one compact corner of coast. Here is how to see the best of it in a day.
Best for: Surfers, walkers and big-sky scenery hunters
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Surf and Shipwrecks: A Wild Innes Day
A big-coast day in Innes built around its two great obsessions - powerful surf breaks and the ghosts of ships that never made it home.
Best for: Surfers, history buffs and big-coast lovers
The Copper Coast Cornish heritage loop
Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo, the famous Copper Triangle, were built by Cornish miners in the 1860s. This loop links their mines, museums and ports into one heritage-rich day.
Best for: History lovers and pasty enthusiasts
The Copper Coast Museums Loop
A heritage-rich loop through Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo, tracing the mines, museums and Cornish stories that built the Copper Triangle.
Best for: Heritage lovers and museum-hoppers
A Family Beach Day on the West Coast
An easy, kid-friendly day along the calm west coast, built around shallow swimming beaches, crabbing flats and uncrowded sand.
Best for: Families with young children
A Jetty-Hopping Weekend on the East Coast
A relaxed two-day run down the sheltered east coast, jetty by jetty.
Best for: Families and easygoing anglers
Lighthouses of the Yorke Peninsula
A two-day circuit of the peninsula's historic lighthouses and the wild coast they watch over.
Best for: Photographers and maritime-history buffs
Quiet beaches of the east coast
The east coast of Yorke is all sheltered water, long jetties and shallow crabbing flats. This relaxed weekend strings together its quietest, kid-friendliest beaches.
Best for: Families, crabbers and slow-travel beach lovers
The Copper Coast in a Day
Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta in a single day, from copper mines to marina sunsets.
Best for: History lovers and Cornish-pasty pilgrims
The Jetty Fishing Trail
A relaxed run down the gulf coast's string of historic jetties, where squid, garfish and whiting come over the rails as the sun drops.
Best for: Anglers and slow-travel families
The West Coast Surf and Solitude Run
A two-day trip down the wild, lightly travelled western coast of the peninsula.
Best for: Surfers and travellers chasing space