best place to stay in or around broken hill

hi,we stayed in the caravan park on willcania side of broken hill and would not hesitate to stay again,edge of town,quiet,clean (sept 07).Mad max replica car at silverton pub plus photo's on wall inside,also make sure your there when they startup the v8 outside sounds great,very good mining museum in broken hill itself have a great holiday peter

Stayed at the Family Parks, Lake View CP and found it fine.
As stated Silverton is a must. Living Desert Art Trail is also worth the walk.
I use this site as a starting point for the tourist stuff.
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Hi Gonebush,
My recommendation would be Pemberton Park at Silverton. You can have a fire which is a plus for us, you are not crowded in at all you can be up to 200 metres from the next camper, it is like you are in the bush, it has the most magnificent trees in the creekbed at the back of the park, the showers are not luxurious but they have plenty of hot water and are clean what more do you want we were in Broken Hill in the July holidays a few years ago, stayed in Broken hill for a few nights then went to Silverton and Pemberton Park wish we went their first worth the drive into town for the peace and quiet and a fire. Hope this helps
Barb

Hi Chris.
We will be staying at Lakeview caravan park from 10th July until Mon 14th..
Might see you there.
Cheers.
Vince

Hi Chris.

I'm living in Broken Hill and recommend a few places to see but Member Dave B is a true local and knows this place better than I know the back of my hand (helps when he used to run tours for years). I'm sure Dave will respond to this when he gets home from work (not that he's probably working because of the rain).

None of the CP's in town would be a problem. They all have their good and bad points. Atleast it will be nice and green when you get here. We've had a heap of rain (for BH that is) and its still raining.

If your staying for a few days you have to go to Silverton, watch the sunset at Mundi Mundi plains. Take a day trip (or overnight) to the Menindi Lakes. Well worth alook since the lakes are full (except the main one) and the Darling River has water in it. Plenty of things in town to see too.

The Info centre in town is very good and the staff are very helpful. Tell them you are in town for x days and they will load you up with that much to do you'll need a holiday when you get home ;)))

Hope you enjoy your holiday anyway mate.

Stay at Silverton as per Barbara M has stated..Just like staying in the bush, but just 40 or so K's out from the Hill, with all the bells and whistles, and one of the best bush pubs you'll encounter. We drove through after 3 days staying in Broken Hill and regretted our missed opportunity. I know where we will stay next time. Broken Hill has 2 parks, and both are bursting at the seams every night, to cater for traffic in each direction. I have been caught twice, but never again.
Fred.

We stayed in the one on Adelaide st? rd? cant for the life of me remember its name. Paul

The Broken Hill caravan Park, Adelaide Road. As you approach from Adelaide it is on the left hand side just past the Cemetery. I have stayed there on numeous occasions, it is quite central and the features and attractions of B/Hill are very easily accessed. You won't be disappointed. Link

We stayed at Lakeview last week. It is a bit quieter than the Adelaide road (less semis). There is some noise at Lakeview from the mine. I thought the sites were a bit tight. The toilets and showers are badly in need of renovation. BBQs poorly sited and little used up on the hill.The sewer dump point was definitely the most diabolically inadequate one I have used! We never did see the "lake".
Penrose Park is a good safe bush camp but 25KM out of town. There were a lot of families with kids there.
At this time of the year Broken Hill is on everyone's list. It would be adviseable to book ahead. We had the next tenant waiting as we hooked up at 9.30 AM. He claimed he was on Eastern time!

Kingo

G'day Gonebush, Penrose Park is the place to go for a bush type setting. hot showers, plenty of room, and generally not to many there.
Make sure you have all your supplies though, because the only shops are in Broken Hill, 25 Kms away.
They probably have got the basics in the kiosk there at the park, I don't know, never asked to see what they have.
A really interesting mine tour is just near there at the Daydream too.
The Mad Max car is parked out the front of the pub.
It's only about 20 minutes to get back into town from out there, so it's not too far out.
If you go out to the Umberumberka resevoir about 10 Ks away, they have the most amazing big steam engine in the building there. They used it to pump water back to Broken Hill in earlier days. Try not to miss it. Drive in through the cyclone gates there, but I think they are only open Mon- Fri.
Dave

Hi there - We just spent 2 nights at the silverton park and concurr with all above comments. All you need, relaxed and spread out.

As I write this we're at the lake view caravan park in broken hill (due to all the road closures when we tried to leave yesterday!!) and it's also a great park, but much more like a regular caravan park.

G'day Chris, dont miss the Museum at Silverton, great displays.
The mine tour ,out of town, is good too, as is the sculpture park.
Tramway museum in town is excellent for train buffs. A daytrip to Menindee is worthwhile, great old shearing shed in Kinchega NP.
Excellent Tourist Info Centre can help with all the rest.
Enjoy......oldbaz.

hi, a big thank you to all that responded to my questions, i'm pretty sure Penrose Park seems to have the vote and it does sound like the sort of place we like, thanks also for the tourist advice, we are planning to be there about 10 days so we will have the time to check things out. any more comments are still welcome, just wanted to say thanks before this thread gets to old.
once again thanks from chris.

Lived there for 3 years. Go to South Broken Hill and get a Mlkshake at the Bell St Store (I think that is what it is called) and make out you're the Fonz for a few minutes.

Dont forget Mutiwinji (spelling?) national park including a walk to the gorge for a swim.

Check out Geoff Domains gallery - a fantastic local artist. Seek out the Broken Hill prison - a magnificent looking old building - with some great sculpture and paintings in the grounds.

Spend a sunset with a bevvy, cheese and bikkies at both the Mundi Mundi plains lookout, and the sculptures.

Go to the pub late in a sat night and get talking to some blokes in big hats. See if you can find out which pub Peter Black drinks in these days, seek him out at the bar (he WILL be there) for a chat.