• Forest Recreation
• Mt Crawford & Kuitpo
• Bundaleer & Wirrabara
• Green Triangle

Forest Recreation

South Australia’s Forest Reserves are a significant open space and tourism resource that contain an interesting diversity of landscape types including native forest, plantations, open spaces and heritage areas.

Each year more than two hundred thousand day visits are undertaken in the Mount Lofty Ranges and Mid North Forest Reserves. These multifunction forests provide a wide range of benefits such as a wood resource for industry, outdoor recreation, conservation of native forests, water catchments, habitat for native flora and fauna, and places that we can all enjoy.

Popular activities include education, picnicking, bushwalking, camping and horse riding. Visitors can obtain quality information from the Forest Information Centres at Mount Crawford or Kuitpo, or through a 24 hour phone information service. A number of major events, such as dog sled races, horse endurance rides, car rallies and field days are held in these forests throughout the year.

The forests at Bundaleer and Wirrabara are also popular and provide visitors with opportunities to see spectacular country in the Southern Flinders Ranges.

Although the forests in the Green Triangle Region of South Australia are primarily for wood production, limited day recreation activities include bushwalking and cave diving.

To ensure the protection of these forests and valuable community assets from fire, camping and BBQ’s are not allowed during the fire danger season.

All forest reserves are closed to the public on declared Total Fire Ban days.

In the event of fire call 000.