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Blinman is a small interesting town lying just north of the park. You can visit some of the old miners cottages and there are tours of the old mine. The hotel has great counter meals. You can camp at the back of the hotel for $20-$30 per night. The camp site is not as charming as other sites in the area but has hot showers and a small kitchen area. It is convenient if you have had a few drinks with your meal at the hotel. The drive east from Blinman to Parachilna takes you through the Parachilna Gorge with plenty of free camping areas amongst the trees near the road. As you approach Parachilna the Flinders ranges disappear in quite a dramatic fashion and the flat dry outback country stretches out to the horizon.
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.