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Houseboats, cabins and riverside camps
The best stay in Renmark
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.
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Calperum Station
$A former sheep station the size of a small country, returned to nature
A 242,800-hectare former pastoral station north of Renmark, now managed for conservation by the Australian Landscape Trust. Floodplain creeks, Ramsar wetlands and true mallee outback, with bookable bush campsites.
Renmark Hotel
$$A landmark Art Deco pub on the Renmark riverfront, owned by the community for over a century.
Riverland Houseboats
$$$Drive your own holiday on the Murray
Self-drive houseboats are the signature Riverland holiday — a floating home you pilot along the Murray at your own pace.
Wilkadene Woolshed Brewing Co
$$Craft beer in a riverside woolshed
A craft brewery in a converted woolshed on the banks of the Murray upstream of Renmark, with riverside camping.