Wildlife & Nature
Wetlands, river red gums and big skies
The best wildlife & nature in Renmark
Ramsar-listed wetlands, towering sandstone cliffs and floodplain forest alive with pelicans, regent parrots and the occasional echidna. This is some of the richest river habitat in the country.
The Riverland is wetland country at its richest. Where the Murray winds through South Australia it spills into a maze of lagoons, anabranch creeks and red-gum floodplains that rank among the most important inland wildlife habitats in the country — including the internationally recognised Riverland Ramsar wetland.
Paddle the canoe trails of Loch Luna or Katarapko Creek, watch waterbirds at restored Hart Lagoon, or lose yourself in the vast red-gum wilderness of Chowilla. Serious birders make the pilgrimage to Gluepot Reserve for malleefowl and rare mallee parrots.
Then there are the cliffs — sheer walls of ochre limestone glowing gold at dusk, like those above Headings Lookout and along the river's grandest bends. Combine wildlife with walking trails and you have endless ways to slow down and let this ancient floodplain reveal itself one quiet bend at a time.
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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.
Chowilla Game Reserve
A vast floodplain of red gum, creeks and lignum upstream of Renmark — Riverland wilderness at its rawest.
Ral Ral Creek
A quiet anabranch creek threading the Renmark floodplain
Renmark Apex Park
Shady riverbank lawns at the heart of Renmark
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.
Ruston's Roses
$One of the largest rose gardens in the world
A vast rose garden near Renmark, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, spectacular in spring and early summer.