The Best Camping Spots on the Eyre Peninsula
Ten camps worth the drive - wilderness coves, beach frontage and outback granite.
Nowhere in South Australia rewards a tent, camper or van like the Eyre Peninsula. The distances are real, the towns are far apart - and in exchange, you get to wake up in places that would be national headlines anywhere else: wilderness coves, beach-frontage dunes, granite outcrops and national parks where emus outnumber campers. Here are ten favourites, from full-facility foreshores to take-everything wilderness. Plan the big loop with our national park experiences, browse places to stay - or commit to the wild west coast around Elliston below.
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1
Port LincolnMemory Cove
The holy grail: a locked-gate wilderness cove at the peninsula's tip with a handful of permit-only sites. Book ahead, earn paradise.
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2
Tumby BayLipson Cove
Council-run sites behind a perfect turquoise cove, with a seabird island offshore and absurd stargazing.
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3
Elliston
Sheringa Beach
Bush camping behind the dunes of a famous salmon beach - surf soundtrack included, facilities not.
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EllistonWalkers Rock Beach
A 2WD-friendly camp on the white sand north of Elliston, gateway to Lake Newland's hidden wetland.
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5
Streaky Bay
Perlubie Beach
Camp on the hard sand itself at Streaky Bay's favourite beach - sunrise over the water from your swag.
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CowellPort Gibbon
Beachfront sites, an old port's worth of history, dolphins most days and the odd sea lion at the point.
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Gawler RangesGawler Ranges National Park
Outback camping among billion-year-old granite and volcanic hills - kangaroos at dusk, total silence at night.
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8
Coffin BayYangie Bay
Coffin Bay National Park's main campground, launchpad for Almonta Beach and the wild Point Avoid coast.
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Port LincolnFishery Bay Lookout
Camp under the gums with a wild koala colony at a historic 1840s sheep station near Port Lincoln.
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10
CedunaDavenport Creek
A free, remote far-west camp where mangroves meet white dunes - 4WD in, nobody around.
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Image credits
- Memory Cove Tablet at Port Lincoln(GN05976).jpg by State Government Photographer , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons