Danggali Conservation Park

• Introduction
• Fact file


Introduction

Danggali Conservation Park is an ideal place for those who enjoy wilderness camping, bushwalking or birdwatching. This was Australia’s first park to be classified under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program. Biosphere reserves are living laboratories where scientists carry out biodiversity programs that aim at a successful balance between conservation and sustainable use.

Located in the northern half of the Murray basin, the park features one of the largest continuous tracts of mallee scrub in the world as well as black oak woodland and bluebush shrubland.The area is a refuge for 27 mammal species including red and western grey kangaroos and the greatest diversity of bats in South Australia, and a huge variety of birdlife, from tiny fairy-wrens and Major Mitchell cockatoos to eagles and emus.

Middens and burial sites are evidence of long Indigenous occupation of this area, especially the more arid country where Aboriginal people still live today. The Nanya’s Pad Interpretation Drive (90-km loop) is named after an Aboriginal man who fled to the Danggali area in the late 1800s. This trip is accessible by 2WD vehicles and incorporates 14 stops that showcase Aboriginal heritage. Bushwalkers can take the Target Mark Trail through the mallee to Target Mark Dam and many birdwatching sites. Take binoculars and you may spot one of the park’s ten rare or endangered species, such as the malleefowl, blackeared miner or scarlet-chested parrot. If camping in the wide-open mallee country does not appeal, you can stay in the old shearers quarters – the park was once four sheep stations. The conservation park is sometimes closed due to flooding.

Fact file

Camping

Private campsites

Location

90 km north of Renmark via Renmark–Wentworth Rd

Park Information

DEH (08) 8204 1910 NPWSA Danggali (08) 8595 8010

Size

253 000 ha

Where to Stay

Renmark (08) 8586 6704 Shearers quarters in park (NPWSA)


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• Campsites

Campsites

Black Oak Country Camping Area

Located 90 km north of Renmark, this camping area is signposted off the Renmark–Wentworth Rd, with signs continuing to the park entrance. Camping here is for self-sufficient campers only.... Find out more

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Little Rock Camping Area

Located 90 km north of Renmark, this camping area is signposted off the Renmark–Wentworth Rd, continuing to the park entrance. Camping here is for self-sufficient campers only.... Find out more

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Mallee Country Camping Area

Located 90 km north of Renmark, this camping area is signposted off the Renmark–Wentworth Rd, with signs continuing to the park entrance. Camping here is for self-sufficient campers only.... Find out more

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Marys Camping Area

Located 90 km north of Renmark, this camping area is signposted off the Renmark–Wentworth Rd; the signs continue to the park entrance. Camping here is for self-sufficient campers only.... Find out more

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Olympic Dam Camping Area

This camping area is signposted off the Renmark–Wentworth Rd, the signs continuing to the park entrance. Situated 90 km north of Renmark, this camping area is for self-sufficient campers only.... Find out more

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