Ridgetop Tour Arkaroola

Not familiar with Warraweena Station, where is it located with repsect to Arkaroola, and how long is the trek?

David

Warraweena lies 26km or so east of Beltana in the Flinders. Beltana is south of Leigh Creek.

Go to Treknotes and then The Flinders region and scroll down. There are 3 treks listed. The one I am referring to is Mt Gill.

Cheers

Willem

Thanks for that, will check it out later this month

David

do tell...

yea 120..just for interest sake...do tell. Are we on the same Arkaroola- the one in South Australia??
Where have you been that you did enjoy?? You must be a hard person to please:-)

Don't judge character signman.
If you read my post it states My Opinion.
I never bagged the place just stated I didn't like it.
There is no crime for that.
We can't all like everything. If we were all the same it would be a boring place.
Regards
120scruiser

loved the ridge top tour and the star obseratory but the camping and prices was well over rated in my opinion regards robert

To be sure you do have every right for your opinion..but just for interest sake maybe there was something I (or you) may have missed..
Did you get there via Grindells Hut & Weetootla Gorge
And check out Bolla Bollana and Wooldoonooldoona Waterhole
And walk into 'The Needles' - then drive thru Umperatana to check out the Wheal Mine area.
Back to the Echo Camp Back Trail to the Paralana Spring and back to base thru the Jasper Twins...
etc etc

hey 120screwser,

not being nasty, just wanting to know what you didn't like. you are quite entitled to have your opinions, i would just like to see what it was. I've been there, enjoyed my experience, though i didn't see EVERYThing. I thought that maybe you saw something that i didn't and could share your experience.

I agree, we all don't have to like everything, however it would be good to know the "bad with the good" in this case.

andrew

As Robert said camping is way over rated.
I did go via Grindles Hut but I did come up from Wilpena Pound and did spend 4 nights in the campground there. I did love it there so after that most camp grounds would be a disappointment. I did do Skytrek as well and loved it.
We found the people at Arkaroola arogant as we tried to book in for the night observatory 6 months in advance and they said we didn't need to just do it when we got there and guess what, when we got there it was booked out.
The camp ground was crap. Everything is over priced including tours.
Maybe I needed to take a different approach but unfortunately I won't be going back.
We move onto the Rock, Alice, Chambers Pillar, Simpson and Cooper Creek. Had a great holiday and maybe just had bad timing at Arakaroola.
These things happen.
120scruiser

The tour takes about 5 1/2hours return and it does follow very steep and narrow mining tracks. At times one would think you are actually following little creek beds. One thing about the trip, if you do have problems with your back then pls don't do it. You are sitting at the back of Landcruiser utes on lightly padded bench seats. And as I said there is no road. Otherwise the scenery up there is really good, since it is a sharp contrast to the rest of the area. You are right in the mountains there, no flat bits here. All the best.