Located 600km north of Adelaide and 130km east of Leigh Creek, in the more rugged and spectacular northern Flinders Ranges, this 610sq km multi award-winning Wilderness Sanctuary contains some of Australia's most spectacular mountain views and offers numerous Advanced Ecotourism accredited guided tours.

The area's first inhabitants were and are the Adnyamathanha. One of their dreamtime or creation stories says that Arkaroo, a mythical monster, drank Lake Frome dry. He then crawled up into the mountains. When he urinated he created the waterholes that are a feature of the area. His movement over the land created Arkaroola Creek.

Arkaroola features rugged mountains, towering granite peaks, magnificent gorges and mysterious waterholes, the home to over 160 species of birds and the shy and endangered Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby.

Arkaroola is a mecca for bushwalkers and four wheel drivers. The spectacular Advanced Ecotourism accredited rugged 4WD Ridgetop Tour is world famous; a journey to the depths of ancient seabeds and across razor-back ridges and peaks of the Flinders Ranges most rugged mountains to the magnificent climax at Sillers Lookout.

Being the first Flinders Ranges tourist organisation to achieve the coveted Advanced Ecotourism accreditation, and with now a total of eleven such products available to enjoy, Arkaroola is truly unique.  In fact, with Arkaroola's third successive S.A. Tourism Award win for Ecotourism it now enters the coveted Hall of Fame, and is undoubtedly South Australia's premier ecotourism destination.

Further Information

Visit Arkaroola Internet site www.arkaroola.com.au