CORNER COUNTRY TOURING ITINERARY THREE

Following Sturt's Steps

This is a suggested itinerary for a tour through the Corner Country.  It starts in Broken Hill but may continue on to Innamincka ( Cooper Creek).

Touring Itinerary one

Touring Itinerary Two

                                                                                                                 Driving distances                                                                                     Fuel outlets
Map of this tour     DAY Sights to see Accommodation                         and meals
  Day one    
Arrive in Broken Hill and after a look around the city head out to Pine View Station adjacent to the Dog Fence. There are two possible routes: Take  the Silver City Highway, turn off just past the Yanco Glen Hotel ruin and over the Barrier Ranges toward the Mundi Mundi Plain. Continue on to Pine View Station.

Alternate suggestions: From Broken Hill travel to the historic village of Silverton.  Lunch at the hotel before heading north to Pine View Station
  • Yanco Glen, interpretive signs to be erected soon.
  • Barrier Ranges, sheep station, Dingo Fence, Flood's Creek campsite of Charles Sturt
  • People and lifestyles
  • Native wildlife and plants

 

 
  Day two    
Continue from Pine View along the border fence road for a distance before turning south- eastwards.  Continue through station country until The Veldt-Milparinka Road.

Travelling northwards now this country is some over which Sturt rode in 1845. 

  • Typical sand dunes of the Simpson-Strzelecki dunefields
  • Ephemeral creeks and lakes
  • Station property
  • Station people and lifestyles
  • Mt Arrowsmith Hills

 
  Day three    
Continue the journey northwards following the lower Grey Range.  Turn off to the west to visit Mt Browne historic goldfields before reaching Milparinka.
  • Grey Range
  • Station country
  • Mt Browne Goldfields
  • Milparinka
  • Sturt's Depot
  • Toole's Family Hotel
  • Tibooburra Hotel
  • The Granites Motel and Caravan Park
  • Mt Wood Homestead
  • camping
  • More
  Day four    
Spend the day exploring Tibooburra and nearby Sturt National Park.

Visit Mt Wood Pastoral Museum displays

Enjoy the remarkable view from Sunset Hill lookout.
  • Headquarters of Sturt National Park and museum
  • Aboriginal Keeping Place
  • Pioneer Park and displays
  • More
  • Toole's Family Hotel
  • Tibooburra Hotel
  • The Granites Motel and Caravan Park
  • Mt Wood Homestead
  • camping
  • More
  Day five    
Head out to Cameron Corner for the day.  Drive through Sturt National park on the way. Call into Fort Grey where Sturt set up his second Corner Country camp.

After lunch return to Tibooburra for the night, or spend the night at Cameron Corner.

Alternatively, return part way to Tibooburra, then turn southwards to join up with the Hawker Gate Road.
  • Sturt National park
  • Fort Grey ( Sturt's Lake Pinaroo campsite)
  • Dingo Fence
  • Corner post for three states
  • Cameron Corner Store
  • Waka Claypan
  • Side trip to the former Warratta goldmine site        (off the Cameron Corner Road)

 
  • Option 1.Overnight at Cameron Corner.
  •  Option 2. Theldarpa Station.
  • Option 3. Tibooburra as above
  • More
Alternate plan

 

 

 From Cameron Corner continue westward toward the Strzelecki Track, and contiune following Sturt's steps as far as the Cooper Creek.    
  Optional Day six    
Option 1. Head from Cameron Corner via the Corner Country Loop to Milparinka and the Silver City Highway.

Option 2.  From Theldarpa reaturn to Milparinka and the Silver City Highway

Option 3.  From Tibooburra return south along the Silver City Highway

 Head off from Cameron Corner toward Tibooburra, but take the intersection Waka which leads south to the Hawker Gate Road, From the Hawker Gate road head east toward Milparinka, calling into Sturt's Depot ( in case you missed it before). 

Continue south from Milparinka to the White Cliffs' turnoff on the Silver City Highway and head to White Cliffs, or, continue on along the highway to Broken Hill.