Upstream from town, Chowilla is great for bush camping (per vehicle $12), canoeing and bushwalking. Access is along the north bank from Renmark or along the south bank from Paringa. For detailed info, contact the Department of Environment, Water & Natural Resources in Berri.


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1. Murray Sunset National Park

9.43 MILES

The stunning 6330 sq km of mallee woodland in this stunning national park reaches from the river red gums of Lindsay Island down to Underbool. Note: most…

2. Paringa Bridge

16.17 MILES

This chunky steel truss bridge has conveyed a vehicle or two across it's broad span since it opened to traffic in 1927. The central span raises to allow…

3. Twenty Third Street Distillery

17.47 MILES

Sip your way into some heady Riverland spirits at this fabulously renovated, art-deco factory on the road into Renmark. The old distillery here closed in…

4. Angove

17.64 MILES

SA wine snobs tend to turn up their noses at Angove, but that's really just a load of old "!%$ (insert expletive of choice). Sure, it's a big-scale…

5. A Special Place for Jimmy James

26.96 MILES

A short amble from the visitor centre, this living riverbank memorial honours a Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal tracker who could 'read the bush like a…

6. Berri Estates

28.58 MILES

Berri Estate's production statistics are astonishing: a third of all of SA's grapes are processed here; 100 million litres of wine are exported annually;…