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Beltana is an historic township off the Parachilna to Leigh Creek road to the north east of the National Park. There is a water tank made by/for the Afghan camel handlers. The town itself has many interesting buildings including a police station, school, hotel, local store and many private dwellings built in the days when Beltana serviced a number of copper mines in the area. Beltana still has a few inhabitants and the hotel opens sometimes. Before the arrival of European settlers the creek running through Beltana had reliable water and supported a sizeable indigenous population but after the copper mines opened up the water supply in the creek became unreliable and the local people moved away. Now that the miners have left some indigenous people have moved back but the creek is still unreliable.
You can easily spend a couple of hours poking about in the town. You can also camp at Beltana for a small fee but it is on the flat fairly featureless plains which lie to the west of the National Park - there are more pleasant camp sites at Parachilna Gorge or back in the Park itself.
A group of rock art with drawings of different things including ochre and charcoal images and have been carbon dated to be around six thousand years old and is a culturally significant site to the Indigenous Adnyamathanha people.
Named after Harold Cazneaux, an Australian photographer who believed that all images should be a piece of art. Unfortunately, outside South Australia, Harold Cazneaux is not very well known. There's nothing so special about this tree, but it's the most prominent tree for kilometres on end.
A canyon as the name says, a sacred one. Unlike most canyons where you would rather be looking down, in this one, you go down through the canyon and look up instead. There are regular tours run by the Wilpena Pound Resort with an Indigenous Adnyamathanha tour guide and details can be found here.
Old Wilpena Station Precinct
An old station used in the early colonial period by the Europeans. Today, only some of what was originally there in the 19th century remains but with many interpretive signs installed.
Ngarri Mudlanha
The eighth highest peak in South Australia with a height of 1,189 metres, this peak gives views of the natural amphitheatre and of the park that are quite not what you expect of the South Australian Outback. The peak and its surroundings may be accessed via a walking trail from Wilpena Resort along the northeast edge of the range outside of Wilpena Pound, or via a longer trail through the middle of the pound. However, keep in mind that the Adnyamathanha people find this mountain sacred and ask not for it to be climbed – however, the choice of whether you'd like to climb up or not is up to you.
The only golden spike site in the southern hemisphere. In mid-2022, there will be a new carpark built for easy access to the spike.