"Takes you places"
(4 night pack walk): 63km of the Heysen trail from Parachilna Gorge trailhead to Wilpena Pound, then 3 nights car camping at Wilpena pound inlcuding 2 day walk: St Marys Peak and Rawnsley Bluff lookout.
This qualifying walk in Gluepot Reserve was executed over 2 days. This bird sanctuary owned and managed by Birds Australia is on 50,000 hectares of semi-arid Mallee scrub. It is part of the largest block of intact Mallee left in Australia, and is home to many endangered bird species. It provides easy and flat walking trails which facilitate good animal and bird spotting opportunities as you don’t have to spend all day watching your step.
These are two well know ‘Great Walks’ in NZ . They are well known, popular, well used, well serviced, spectacular and worth doing. They involve overnight camping in huts or, in one case, in tents.
This listing provides an outline of combining these two walks although they can be done separately. This activity is listed just to provide initial information. There is a lot of detailed information available on-line or from the DOC (Department of Conservation) in NZ which should be ...
4WD based car camping & day walks.
It may be possible to organise some multiday walking in the area but it would require covering significant distances over arid terrain between points of interest and campsites.
Despite the preference for a 4WD trip this area offers very good, remote bush camping and interesting scenery and short walks.
Nearby St Ive Station offers public camping, accommodation, limited shopping and fuel facilities as well as 4WD self guided tours in the area and to Lake Gairdner ...
This overview describes an eight day walk in the Sequoia National Park, California as well as how to get there as a solo traveller. The attraction of the park is that it is the home of the giant Sequoia trees and has a wide variety of walking trails that connect with long distance trails like the Pacific Crest Trail, John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Trail. It is easily accessible from Los Angeles or San Francisco. There are many ...