Travelling to Port Augusta from Adelaide - Melbourne

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If you want to go from Melbourne to Port Augusta via the riverland is a nice trip but you would bypass Adelaide

Other way Melbourne to Adelaide then to Port Augusta but that way you wouldnt go through the riverland

John,

My preferred route to Pt Augusta is Melbourne to Mildura via the Calder and then west on the Sturt to Renmark. Head across the river to Morgan, Burra, Spalding, Guinare, Willmington and then down to Port Augusta through Horrocks Pass.

Of course the occasional stop in Jamestown is often warranted.

Cheers Mick

It is shorter to go through Adelaide, that's if you like ploughing through Adelaide traffic and about 1050km.
To Ouyen, Pinaroo, Loxton, Berri, Morgan, Burra, Peterborough, Orroroo, Wilmington gives the opportunity too see the real country but is longer by approx hundred km. Don't take fruit or vegies cos they want them,you can't have them.

Rat race on the highways, real life on the by ways.

Ross M

I tend to agree with comments expressed John but nevertheless we go straight via Adelaide because we treat it as a commuter leg and this is both the shortest fastest way and also the cheapest because we normaly fill up at Port Wakefield and usually with lower price fuel.

You don't go thru centre of Adelaide but turn north at Glen Osmond going via M1 up to Marden ,via Hampstead rd and on to Port Wakefield Rd.

It is city driving for about 3/4 of an hour then your back onto highways.

Timing can help with this trip.

We usually leave Melbournes east 4am which puts you thru the Adelaide section just after the lunch traffic and onto to PT Aug between 4-5pm.

Just don't go any where near the Sunraysia Highway to get to Mildura. I had back problems until I did that stretch. I bounced and lunged so much I relocated my slipped discs and realigined my back. Bloody classic strectch bitumen....down to 60 klms an hour in some places towing the van....