I am a big fan of my state of South Australia, but sadly many tourists only focus on the east coast of Australia, probably because they’re not aware that SA has so much to offer!
Below I have compiled a list of over 600 tourist attractions you can find in the state of South Australia. These attractions are spread wide and far – from the Nullabor, to the Riverland, to Adelaide CBD. I have attempted to cluster them into geographical areas as best I can.
I’m not a wine drinker so wineries have been left off this list – but there’s plenty of them in SA. Don’t worry. If you want to visit a winery, they’ll find you.
My intention is to update this list as required, so hopefully all the details below are current. Let me know if they’re not!
Adelaide CBD
- Adelaide Zoo
- The trees of Plane Tree Drive
- Migration Museum
- Centre of Democracy (in in the institute building)
- ANZAC Wall on Kintore Ave
- Adelaide Casino
- Botanic Gardens
- Santos Museum of Economic Botany
- Bicentennial Conservatory
- Palm House
- Amazon Waterlilly Pavillion
- International Rose Garden
- Free tours at 10:30am
- Art installations at the east of the gardens
- Art Gallery
- State Library of South Australia
- South Australian Museum (and the art display of “14 pieces” out the front)
- Old Adelaide Gaol (including ghost tours after dark!)
- Samstag Museum of Art
- Bonython Park (including the Bunyip Trail)
- Parliament House
- Government House
- Ayers House Museum
- SAHMRI aka “The Cheesegrator Building” (tours available)
- Adelaide Oval
- Behind the Scenes Tour
- The Bradman Collection
- RoofClimb
- Rundle Mall
- Opal Mine
- Adelaide Arcade (including ghost tours after dark)
- Regent Arcade
- The Malls Balls
- “A Day Out” aka the pigs
- See it from a balcony – like from Two Bit Villians or the Richmond Hotel
- City Library
- Escape Hunt
- Adventure Rooms
- Haighs Chocolates
- Himeji Gardens
- Sir Samuel Way Building
- Haighs Chocolate Tours (Parkside)
- Rymill Park (and rowboats!)
- Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
- Comedy at the Rhino Room
- Soundscape & Art Pod (25 Pirie St)
- Hill Smith Gallery
- Christmas attractions like:
- Torrens Christmas Carols
- Christmas tree in Victoria Square
- Christmas Paegant
- Daypass for Next Generation Gym
- Torrens River
- Hire a bike!
- Popeye
- Paddle Boat Rides
- Segway
- History Trust lectures in the evening at Torrens Parade Ground
- Adelaide Festival Centre (book to see a show)
- Events like:
- Womadelaide
- Adelaide Fringe
- Tour Down Under
- Adelaide 500
- Adelaide Festival
- Adelaide Film Festival
- OzAsia Festival
- Feast Festival
- Sala Festival
- Adelaide Cabaret Festival
- Tours like:
- Adelaide Heritage Walks
- First Steps in Adelaide walk from Info Centre at Rundle Mall 9:30am weekdays
- Ghost Crime Tour
- Self-guided tours from The City of Adelaide
- Self-guided heritage-plaque walk
- Self-guided Great Buildings tour from The City of Adelaide
- Self-guided Adelaide Explorer trails
- Kaurna Walking Trail
- Tours Around Adelaide
- Verco Building (first high rise building in South Australia)
- West Terrace Cemetery (including tours)
- Markets like:
- Market on Holland Street
- Ebenzer Night Markets
- Adelaide Night Markets
- Gilles Street Market
- Adelaide Free Bikes (including the Bike Art Trail)
- Treasury Tunnels
- Adelaide Central Markets
- Adelaide Town
- Art exhibitions
- Tours on Mondays and Tuesdays
- Lindes Lane Bar (and secret bar behind fireplace)
- Eco-Caddy
- The HandleBar (the bar on a bike!)
- The Squares of Adelaide:
- Light Square
- Hindmarsh Square (check out the play space)
- Victoria Square
- Hurtle Square
- Whitemore Square
- Street art “Carpark Members Only on Rosina St
North Adelaide
- St Peter’s Cathedral
- North Adelaide Golf Course
- Fire Station Inn
- The David Roche Foundation
- Self-guided Heritage Plaques walk
- Adelaide Aquatic Centre
Wayville Showgrounds (Goodwood)
- Markets on Sunday
- Royal Adelaide Show in September
- Adelaide Animal Expo in April
- Many other events and exhibitions throughout the year
Port Adelaide
- Maritime Museum
- Aviation Museum
- Train Museum
- Ghost tours
- Train museum
- Suburb
- Port River
- Lighthouse
- Fishermen’s Wharf Market
- Kayaking along Port River – see ships graveyard, mangroves
- Torrens Island, including Quarantine Station tour
- Port Loop Bike Ride
- Wonderwalls Mural Walking Tour
Glenelg
- Catch the tram from Adelaide CBD to Glenelg
- The Beach House (including the water slides)
- Bay Discovery Centre
- Marina
- Wigley Reserve
- The Buffalo
- The Old Tram
- Regg Sprigs Diving Chamber
- Orange Spot Bakery
- Haighs Chocolate
- City to Bay Fun Run (September)
- Walk the:
- Proclamation Trail (3.5km – including the Old Gum Tree)
- Self-guided mansions of Glenelg walk
- Self-guided walk through history
- Marina
- Art along the esplanade
- Jetty
- Beach (look out for dolphins)
- Temptation Sailing, including the Dolphin Cruise
- Glenelg Air-raid Shelter
Other Western Suburbs
- Ice arena at Thebarton
- Travel along the Torrens (walking, running, cycling)
- Sir Thomas Playford ETSA Museum in Kurralta Park
- Brewery Lights at Christmas
- Semaphore
- Carousel
- Jetty
- Old Cinema
- Fort Glanville
- Semaphore Waterslide Complex
- Semaphore Steam Train
- Henley Beach (including the jetty)
- Grange (including the jetty)
- West Beach
- Mega Adevnutre Australia (aerial playground!)
- Harbour Town
- Ikea
- Delfin Island
- Adelaide Cup at Morphettville
- Brighton
- Jetty Rd
- Arch of Remembrance
- Holdfast Bay History Centre
- Sir Douglas Mawson’s grave at St Jude’s Cemetery
- Kingston Park Coastal Reserve
- Kingston House
- Tjilburke Monument & Lookout
- Tjilbruke Spring
- Cummins House at Novar Gardens
East / ‘The Foothills’
- Belair National Park (including the waterfall hike)
- Carrick Hill
- Morialta Conservation Park (including the Morialta Falls)
- Windy Point
- Winn’s Courthouse Museum at Coromandel Valley
- Wittunga Botanic Gardens
- Sturt Gorge Recreation Park (including waterfalls)
- Admire the grand houses at
- Springfield (the suburb)
- Victoria Avenue, Unley Park
- Urrbrae House Historic Precinct, including:
- Urrbrae House and Gardens
- Coach House
- Peter Wait’s Garage
- Battery House
- The Waite Arboretum
- Undertake any of a number of self-guided historic walks of the Burnside Historical Society
- Mount Osmond Reserve (including Glen Osmond Mines tour)
- Appreciate the forest of…
- Mt Crawford
- Kuipto
The Hills
- Cleland Wildlife Park
- Mt Lofty
- Gardens
- Climb to the top
- Lookout
- Hahndorf
- Admire the german buildings
- Strawberry picking at Beerenberg
- National Motor Museum at Birdwood
- Melba’s Chocolate Factory at Woodside
- The Big Rocking Horse (including the wildlife park)
- Gorge Wildlife Park
- Earthship at Ironbank
- Stirling
- Steam Roller Park
- Essence Cafe
- Lobethal Lights (at Christmas)
- Clarendon (including the weir)
- Santarilla in December in Kangarilla
- Mount Bold Reservoir
- Strathalbyn (including the helicopter rides)
- Pioneer’s Women’s Trail
- Mark Oliphant Conservation Park (including waterfall trail)
Northern Suburbs
- The Heights Observatory in Modbury Heights
- National Military Vehicle Museum in Edinburgh (including Ghost Crime Tours)
- Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum (including paranormal lock-ins)
- Drive in cinema at Gepps Cross
- Adelaide Warbird flights
- Gameroom Essentials at Craigmore
- Anstey Hill Recreation Park
- Ellis Cottage
- Water Gully track
- Newman’s ruin
- Geological Hike from Gate 8
- Silver Mine Loop
- Performances as part of the Adelaide Festival
- Coopers Brewery Tour at Regency Park
- Saint Kilda
- Playground
- Mangroves
- Tramway museum
- Port Parham beach
Barossa and Surrounds
- Dinosaur mini golf at Barossa Bowland
- Whispering Wall at Williamstown
- Hot air ballooning
- Helicopter flights
- Maggie Beers
- Segway Sensation at Seppeltsfields Winery
- Tanunda
Southern Suburbs
- Hallett Cove Conservation Park
- Sellicks Beach
- Lady Buddha
- Drive on the beach
- Port Noarlunga
- Jetty & jetty jumping
- Snorkelling at the reef
- Delicious food options like Beck’s Bakery, Tequila & Tacos, Fleurieu Pantry, and Ampika’s
- Port Willunga
- Star of Greece shipwreck
- Beach
- Moana Beach
- Maslins Beach
- Silver Sands Beach
- Aldinga
- Beach
- Adelaide Biplane Tours
- Onkaparinga Gorge
Fleurieu Peninsula: Victor Harbor & Goolwa Area
- Urrimbirra Wildlife Park
- Granite Island
- Horse Drawn Tram
- Guided Penguin Tours
- Walk it
- Camel and Pony tours
- The Big Duck Boat Tours from Victor Harbor
- The Bluff
- Encounter Bay
- The Cockle Train / Steamranger
- Whale Centre
- Port Elliot
- Horseshoe Bay
- Boomer Beach
- Walk up to the Port Elliot Obelisk
- Middleton including the beach huts
- Goolwa
- See the Murray Mouth
- Use your 4WD on Goolwa Beach
- Goolwa Riverboat Centre including Oscar W the paddle steamer
- Spirit of the Coorong Cruises
- Goolwa Motor Museum
- Goolwa Wharf Markets
Fleurieu Peninsula: Other
- Willunga
- Slate Museum
- Courthouse Museum
- 4WD Tours
- McLaren Vale
- d’Arenberg Cube
- Winery cycle tour
- Flights over the vineyards
- Skydiving
- Hindmarsh Falls
- Myponga
- Reservoir, including kayaking on the reservoir
- Wholesale Country Market
- Beach
- Conservation Parks (Myponga, Nixon Skinner, and Yulte)
- Market
- Inman Valley
- Market
- Selwyn’s Glacier Rock
- Spring Mount Conservation Park
- Carrickalinga
- Beach
- Walking and cycling track
- Lookout
- Yankalilla
- Historical Museum
- Craft and Produce Market
- Heritage Trail (to Normanville)
- Saint Mary Mckillop Old School House
- Acoustic evenings at the Agricultural Hall
- Our Lady of Yankalilla Shrine
- Gallery 88
- Yankalilla Yarns and Fine Arts Gallery
- Normanville
- Beach
- Ex-HMAS Hobart Memorial lookout
- Horse riding
- Bungala Park & Historic Cottage
- Ex-HMAS Hobart off Wirrina, including diving
- Torrens Vale, including the lookout
- Waitpinga Farm Quad Bike Adventures
- Parsons Beach (4WD beach)
- Ingalalla Falls
- Eric Bonython Conservation Park
- Waitpinga Conservation Park
- Second Valley
- Beach, including the reef
- Heritage walk
- Rapid Bay Beach, including the jetty
- The ghost town of Torrens Vale (previously Dairy Flat)
- Tunkalilla Beach
- Delamere
- Old churchs
- Art wall
- Deep Creek Conservation Park
- Blowhole Beach
- Boat Harbor Beach
- 4WD Tracks
- Waterfall
- Ridgetop Retreats
- Heyson Trail
- Talisker Conservation Park
- Cape Jervis
- The start of the Heysen Trail
- Community Market
- Morgan’s Beach
- Fishery Beach
- Starfish Hill Wind Farm
- Yankalilla Radar Station (Rarkang Rd)
Murray Bridge and Surrounds
- Monarto Zoo
- Murray Bridge
- Jetski on the river
- Houseboats
- Captain Proud Paddle Cruises
- The Bunyip
- Mannum Dock Museum, including the PS Marion
- Mannum Waterfalls
- Tailem Bend
- Old Tailem Town, including the ghost tours
- The ferry to Jervois
- Tailem Bend Railway Museum, including locomotive playground
- The Bend Motorsport Park
- Meningie
- Museum
- Lake Albert
The Riverland
- Walkers Flat Cliffs
- Big Bend Lookout, Nildottie
- Swan Reach, including night tours
- Morgan Historic Port
- Ramco Wetlands, including camping
- Banrock Station Wine and Wetlands Centre
- Loxton Historic Village
- Monash Adventure Park
- Cobdogla Irrigation & Steam Museum
- Lake Bonney
- Murray River National Park
- Berri
- Canoeing
- Riverside walk
- Renmark
- PS Industry (Heritage Steam Vessel)
- Olivewood Historic Homestead and Museum
- Canoeing
The Mid North
- Port Augusta
- Wadlata Outback Centre
- Australian Arid Lands Botanic Gardens
- The Old Survey Art Gallery (open by appointment)
- Melrose
- Mount Remarkable
- Historic walk
- Port Germein, including the jetty
- Peterborough
- Tinsmith’s Cottage
- Steamtown Museum, including the light show at night
- Radium Hill (a ghost town with plaques and cemetery)
- Magnetic Hill (in Black Rock)
- Alligator Gorge, include the waterfall The Terraces
- Wirrabara Forest
- Stone Hut, including the Stone Hut Historic Route
- Jamestown
- Bundaleer Forest
- Mural Walk
- RM Williams Centre
- Penn Cottage Pressed Glass
- Port Pirie
- Port Pirie Regional Tourism & Arts Centre, including Shakka the Shark
- Historic walk around town
- Port Pirie RSL Military Museum
- Port Pirie Aerodome Museum (open by appointment only)
- Solomontown Beach
- Gladstone Gaol, including ghost tours
- Crystal Brook
- Snowtown
- The Big Blade
- The bank
- Burra
- Heritage passport (includes lookouts, mines, Redruth Gaol, miners’ dugouts, police station and stables, Burra Smelter, and museums)
- Burra Regional Art Gallery
- Ghost tour
- Dare Hill Summit Drive
- Outbush Aboriginal Tour
- Bungaree Station, including the tours
- Clare
- Brooks Lookout
- Horrocks Cottage
- Cogwebs bike hire
- Old Police Station Museum
- Sevenhill
- Producers Market
- Spring Gully Lookout
- Quarry Hill Lookout
- Polish Hill River Church Museum
- Sevenhill Cellars Tour
- Mintaro
- Martindale Hall
- Mintaro Maze
- Riesling Trail from Auburn to Barinia
- Museum in Bute
- Stockport Observatory
- Kapunda
- Ghost tours
- Map the miner
- The museum under the Kapunda Bakery
- Port Broughton, including the jetty
- Port Wakefield, including the water
The Far North
- Blinman Mine
- Flinders Ranges / Wilpena Pound
- Camping
- Scenic Flight
- Bunyeroo Gorge
- Parachilna Gorge
- Hawker
- Arkaba (wildlife camping experience)
- Stokes Hill Lookout
- Bendleby Ranges
- Pichi Richi Railway in Quorn
- Camel Treks Australia from Beltana Station
- Woomera
- Woomera Heritage Centre
- Interactive Rocket Range Museum
- Coober Pedy
- Dug out
- Noodling for opals
- Lookout Cave Underground Motel
- The Old Timer’s Mine Museum
- Umoona Opal Mine and Museum
- The Breakaways
- William Creek, including scenic flights over Lake Eyre
- Maralinga Test Site Tours
- 4WD the Simpson Dessert
The Yorke Peninsula
- Kadina
- The Farm Shed
- Wallaroo
- Wallaroo Museum
- Drive on the beach at North Beach
- Cornucopia Hotel Paranormal Lockin
- Ferry to Cowell
- Moonta Bay
- Moonta Mines Museum
- Ghost Tours
- Port Hughes
- Ardrossan, including the jetty
- Port Victoria
- Walking trails
- Maritime Museum
- Port Vincent
- Stansbury, including the jetty
- Flaherty’s Beach (4WD)
- Edithburgh, including the Edithburgh Jetty
- Corny Point
- The lighthouse
- Berry Bay
- Marion Bay
- Hillocks Ocean Pods
- Willyama Beach
- Innes National Park
- Shell Beach
- Cable Bay Campground
- Aboriginal Coastal Cultural Tour
- Troubridge Island
Eyre Peninsula (less Ceduna and beyond)
- Googs 4WD track
- Mt Ive Station
- Peter’s Pillars
- Kath’s Castle
- Lake Gardiner
- The Embankment
- Gawler Ranges National Park
- Organ Pipes
- Kolay Mirica Falls
- Old Paney Homestead
- Poochera
- Poochera Humpy (cottage)
- The Big Ant
- Pildappa Rock
- Streaky Bay
- Wudinna
- The Big Farmer
- Mt Wudinna
- Polda Rock
- Ucontitchie Hill
- Whyalla
- Point Lowley
- Mt Laura Homestead Museum
- Maritime Museum
- Murphy’s Haystacks
- Kimba, including the Big Galah
- Baird Bay, including the eco experience (swim with dolphins and seals)
- Venus Bay
- Talia Caves & Beach
- Lock
- Elliston, including Leo Cummings Monument and Lookout
- Lucky Bay
- Cowell
- Mount Millar Windfarm
- Ferry to Wallaroo
- Franklin Harbour Historical Museum
- Schultz’s Quandong Farm
- Port Gibbon, including the Coastal Ketches Drive
- Arno Bay, including the boardwalk
- Port Neill
- The foreshore, including the anchor of Lady Kinnard
- Vic & Jill Fauser’s Museum
- Port Neill Town Lookout
- Scenic drive
- Cummins, including the historic buildings
- Koppio Smithy Museum
- Tumby Bay
- Tumby Bay Skills Centre
- Glendara Rose Garden
- Rotunda Art Gallery
- Excell Blacksmith & Engineering Museum
- The Island Lookout
- Interpretative Mangrove Boardwalk
- Tod Reservoir Museum and picnic area
- Mt Dutton Bay Woolshed
- Coffin Bay
- Coffin Bay National Park, including the 4WD track to the lighthouse
- Port Lincoln
- Makybe Diva sculpture
- Axel Stenross Maritime Museum
- Fishermen’s Monument
- Dreamtime Rainbow Rock (store)
- Kuju Aboriginal Arts
- Port Lincoln Railway Museum
- The Old Mill Lookout
- Nautiulus Art Centre
- Whalers Way coastal drive
- Port Lincoln RSL Museum
- Mill Cottage Museum
- Settler’s Cottage Museum
- Winter Hill Lookout
- Puckridge Park Lookout
- Adventure Bay Charters Port Lincoln (swimming with sharks or seals)
- The Big Bob-Tailed Lizard
- Lincoln National Park
- Sandboarding
- Sleaford-Wanna Sandune System (4WD)
- Mikkira Station
The Nullabor (Ceduna and Beyond)
- Bunda Cliffs
- Murrawijine Caves
- Head of the Bight
- Fowlers Conservation Park, including 4WDing on Scotts Beach
- Point Bell Conservation Park, including 4WDing
- 4WD Davenport Creek
- Ceduna
- Whale watching
- Pinky Point Lookout and walking trail
- Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre
- Ceduna Visitors Centre
- Ceduna School House Museum
- Beach
- Spotters’ Memorial
- The Big Oyster
- Scenic flights
Limestone Coast (less Mt Gambier / Millicent / Port MacDonnell)
- The Coorong
- Coorong National Park, including Ocean Beach
- Parnka Point
- Keith
- Early Settler’s Cottage
- Salt Creek
- Bordertown
- Runaway Holes at Pooches Swamp
- Bob Hawke Gallery
- Clayton Farm Heritage Museum
- Historic drive around Bordertown and Mundulla
- Mundulla
- The Plaited Tree
- Moot Yang Gunya Swamp
- Wolsley, including the WWII Tanks
- Jip Jip Conservation Park
- Naracoorte
- The Fossil Cave
- Sheep’s Back Museum
- Bool Lagoon / Hacks Lagoon
- Kingston
- Sundial of Human Involvement
- The Big Lobster (“Larry the Lobster”)
- Butcher’s Gap Conservation Park
- Cape Jaffa Lighthouse
- Kingston National Trust Museum
- Mount Benson
- Robe
- Drive on Long Beach
- Little Dip Conservation Park
- Customs House Museum
- Chinese Monument
- Cape Dombey Obelisk
- Lake Fellmongery
- Robe Lighthouse
- Penola
- Mary Makillop Interpretive Centre
- John Riddoch Centre
- Petticoat Lane
- Beachport
- 4WDing
- The Old Wool and Grain Museum
- Lake George
- Bowman Scenic Drive
- Jetty
- Southend
- Woakwine Cutting
Mt Gambier / Millicent / Port MacDonnell
- Mt Gambier
- The Blue Lake
- Valley Lakes
- Lady Nelson Discovery and Visitor Centre
- The Cave Garden
- Engelbreht Cave
- Umpherston Sinkhole (The Hanging Garden)
- Millicent
- Millicent National Trust Museum
- Lake McIntyre
- Millicent Gallery
- Woakwine Windfarm
- Carpenters Rocks, including Cape Banks Lighthouse
- Tantanoola
- Tantanoola Caves
- Tantanoola Tiger at Tantanoola Hotel
- Canunda Wind Farm
- Canunda National Park
- Mount Shank
- The Little Blue
- Allendale East Cave
- Port MacDonnell, including Dingley Dell Cottage
- Piccaninnie Ponds
- Glenelg River at Donovan
Kangaroo Island
- Penneshaw
- Penneshaw Maritime and Folk Museum
- Visitors’ Information Centre
- Kangaroo Island Shipwreck Trail
- Cape Willoughby Lighthouse
- Little Sahara Desert
- Seal Bay Conservation Park
- Raptor Domain
- Vivonne Bay
- Kangaroo Island Outdoor Adventures (including quad bike tours, sandboarding, kayaking, bike tours, and walking tours)
- Kelly Bay Caves
- Southern Ocean Lodge
- Flinders Chase National Park
- Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail
- Remarkable Rocks
- Admirals Arch
- Cape Borda Lightstation
- Pardana Soldier Settlement Museum
- Emu Bay
- Drive on the beach
- Emu Bay Lavendar
- Kingscote
- Hope Cottage
- The Big Bee
If you have any additions to make, please get in touch! Or also subtractions – businesses or places that you know are not operating anymore.
I hope this list has inspired your destination choices within South Australia. Please comment if this helps you with your travel plans. Good luck!
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