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Houseboats, cabins and riverside camps
The best stay in Blanchetown
Sleep on the water aboard a self-drive houseboat, wake to birdsong in a riverside cabin, or pitch a tent beneath the river red gums. The Riverland is built for slowing down.
The quintessential Riverland stay floats. Hiring a houseboat is the classic way to holiday here — your accommodation, transport and front-row nature seat rolled into one slow-moving home, moored each night against a red-gum bank under a sky thick with stars. No licence is needed, and the cliff-lined reaches around Renmark and Paringa are among the finest stretches to drift.
Prefer dry land? The region offers riverfront cabins and caravan parks, characterful country pubs like the Art Deco Renmark Hotel, and serviced town stays close to the foreshores. For something wilder, there's bush camping in Murray River National Park and the remote Chowilla floodplain.
For a true taste of the river's wild side, camp along the Katarapko creeks where turtles bask and sea-eagles patrol overhead. However you choose to rest your head, you'll wake to the slow brown Murray sliding past and the dawn chorus rolling down the water.