Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park

The walk from Grindell's hut to Weetootla campground traverses Weetootla gorge. It is a walk of moderate difficulty and is well described in the national park handouts and in their app. It's a delight to walk through cool green gorges with springs and pools when the vegetation on the hills is scorched and only just clinging to life. You can detour to visit the Monarch mine if you wish.

The Blue Range lies to the west of Grindell's hut. Some of the gorges and chasms on the eastern slopes of the range make for spectacular and adventurous walking. These walks are not described in the national park handouts no doubt because they are too difficult for the casual walker. Persons walking in this area should be able to navigate through trackless country and have a topographic map with them (the national park app is not adequate). Normal safety precautions not to enter gorges and chasms during or immediately after rain because of the risk of rapidly rising water should be observed.

Iga Warta lies just to the west of the park on Leigh Creek Road local indigenous people run it and offer accommodation but the real drawcards are the tours of the local area which they arrange. The Malki painting site is one of a few painting sites in the Flinders Ranges. Red Gorge is one of the Flinders Ranges' most important engraving sites and Iga Warta is the only organisation arranging tours there. The social history tour visits Minerawuta (Ram Paddock Gate) - of great significance as it was the last traditional Indigenous encampment in the northern Flinders.

You could easily spend 4 or 5 days there if you wished to go on all the tours but even one tour gives you some insight into the local indigenous community.