10 places to camp on the Yorke Peninsula
From Innes' surf-side campgrounds to clifftop bush camps and classic foreshore caravan parks
Camping is the native accommodation of the Yorke Peninsula. The grandest coastal scenery is reached through Innes National Park, where campgrounds sit within earshot of the surf, while the council's bush camping grounds dot the wilder west coast — cheap, simple and spectacular. Book national park sites ahead in holiday seasons; council sites need a permit.
For the full circuit experience, many campers link these stops along the coast-hugging Walk the Yorke route or pair them with a surf-and-salmon run down the bottom end. Here are ten favourites, wild to comfortable.
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Innes National ParkPondalowie Bay Campground
The classic: sheltered sites in the dunes of Innes National Park, a short walk from the surf break and the fishing village.
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Innes National ParkBrowns Beach
Camp behind the peninsula's most famous salmon beach and be first onto the sand when the school comes through at dawn.
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Innes National ParkStenhouse Bay
Clifftop camping near the old gypsum jetty at Innes' front door — handy to the visitor centre and the lookout walk.
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Innes National ParkGym Beach
A quiet bush campground at the park's remote northern edge, with a wild, often-empty surf beach below.
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Marion BayGleesons Landing
The west coast council camp par excellence: grassy clifftop sites, a boat launch over the beach and legendary sunsets.
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Marion BayDaly Head
Bush camping beside one of the Yorke's great surf headlands — bring everything, take everything, thank us later.
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MaitlandBurners Beach
A simple council ground behind the beach north of Port Victoria, beloved of anglers chasing whiting and squid.
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Hillocks Drive (Butlers Beach)
Private-property camping spread along 7 km of wild coast at Butlers Beach — clifftop sites, rock pools and surf fishing.
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MinlatonPoint Turton
A friendly caravan park above Hardwicke Bay for those wanting power, hot showers and calamari from the jetty.
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MinlatonPort Rickaby
A sleepy foreshore caravan park behind a west coast beach — jetty, general store, sunset, repeat.
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Carry water for the bush camps, check seasonal fire bans before lighting anything, and leave every site cleaner than you found it — the Yorke's camps stay open because campers do the right thing.
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Image credits
- Pondalowie Bay beach.jpg by Peterdownunder , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons