We have developed our own rating for each Caravan Park that we visit. This rating will give the Park a score out of ten with a figure of ten being the highest rating possible. It is a rating system that suites what we are looking for in a Caravan Park and may not suite everyone's needs like it does our own. Our rating system covers the following five items that we ask ourselves after each visit. Things like the first general appearance of the Caravan Park, manner and helpfulness of the staff, size and ground conditions of the sites, general buildings and Park grounds condition as finally the number of Amenities Blocks to suite the number of people catered for. The spreadsheet that we use to calculate the rating is available to use by clicking on the Microsoft Excel File or to view by the Adobe Reader File.
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Adelaide Shores Caravan Resort is located on the beach to the west of the main Adelaide Airport. This is a large park that is using reclaimed water to water their lush green lawns. The many amenities blocks are clean and evenly spaced throughout the park grounds. This is a resort type park that offers everything that anyone could ever wish for in a caravan park.
Ardrossan Caravan Park is located on the Western side of Gulf of St Vincent 137kms from Adelaide. The park mainly caters for permanents, but do offer some good grassed sites for the tourist to enjoy. There is now a new ammenities block which has replaced the old one for the sites on the southern side of the Park to use. The town offers an upgraded jetty to crab and fish from.
Arno Bay Caravan Park is located on the Eastern side of Eyre Peninsula 46kms south of Cowell towards Port Lincoln. This is a well established park offering all the services that one would require. The sites are large ad most being well grassed. Free bbq's are on offer in a well protected eating and cooking area. A perfect overnight stay or longer if required. Like most towns in this area, good fishing is always on offer.
Lake Bonney Holiday Park is locate on the banks of Lake Bonney at Barmera 220kms North East of Adelaide. Most of the powered sites are grassed with the ensuite sites being dirt. It is a pity that the ensuite sites are so far from the waters edge and the main part of the park.
Last visited January 2003 when it was 48 degrees in the shade under our caravan awning. PARK RATING: 6
BARMERA WEST:
Cobdogla Station Caravan Park is located 217kms East of Adelaide in the Riverland. This Caravan Park is a very short walk from the main river and offers a mix of permanent and tourist sites. The older amenities block offers updated clean facilities with flowers in hanging pots. Most caravan sites are lawned and offer some shade.
Last visited October 1999.
PARK RATING: 6
BERRI:
Berri Riverside Caravan Park is located in the Riverland 235kms North East of Adelaide. This park has rose gardens around the park and by the entrance gate which makes for a very attractive setting. It is a short walk from the park to the river's edge and a nice stroll to the Information Centre for a piece of cake and a hot coffee. The main Office area and Manager's house has been upgraded and really looks the part. The modern amenity blocks are clean and the sites are all grassed.
Blanchtown Caravan Park is located on the banks of the Murray River 133kms North East of Adelaide where Lock One runs across the Murray River. This is a small Caravan Park with water views of the river making it great for a bit of rest and relaxation over a weekend.
Bordertown Caravan Park is located 274kms South East of Adelaide. The caravan park is fully grassed with clean modern amenities. We again only stopped here for one night on our way home from Victoria, although a longer period in this park should be ok.
Burra caravan park is located 156kms from Adelaide on the Barrier Highway heading towards Broken Hill. The sites are gravel with some being too small to erect an awning or annex with the car on the site at the same time. The amenities were clean and tidy with good water supply to the showers. The Park is located on the banks of the Burra Creek just a short stroll from the main street. PARK RATING: 6
CADNEY PARK:
Cadney Park is a small Park which offers clean dirt sites with a lot of drive through sites where you do not have to unhitch if you are only stopping over night. Most sites offer some shade and there is a large area for non powered site if required. The Caravan Park here is part of the Roadhouse which offers excellent meals to the traveller.
Clare Caravan Park is located 135kms North of Adelaide in the Clare Valley on Main North Road. Most of the sites are gravel with grassed site being available over the small creek. Good clean amenities are available. Clare has many local wineries for people to visit during their stay.
Coober Pedy Oasis Caravan Park is located 858kms North West of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The park offers under cover shaded sites in the main section of the park and open sites in the overflow area of the park. All sites are gravel with easy access. If you need to erect an annex, the towing vehicle will need to be parked at the front of the site as there isn't room to park along side. The amenities blocks are clean and work on a twenty cent coin operated water timer for the showers.
Stuart Range Coober Pedy is a large Caravan Park with the clean dirt covered sites set up in a circular layout offering all drive through sites with plenty of room although there is very little shad on offer. It has a centrally located amenities block which has the capacity to cater well for the size of the park. With the very well appointed Camp Kitchen and large playground for the kids, this Park would be suited to anyone who wanted to stop longer than one night.
Coobowie Caravan Park is located 270kms West of Adelaide on the Western side of Gulf St Vincent. Coobowie offers fully grassed sites with a modern and clean brick amenities block. Having spent our Christmas holidays from 1998 through to 2002 at this park, demonstrates our liking for the place. Summer time temperatures are generally 10 degrees lower at Coobowie than in Adelaide.
Cowell Foreshore Caravan Park is located on the Eastern side of Eyre Peninsula 110kms south of Whyalla towards Port Lincoln. The Park is set back from the beach due to the mangroves but offers line of site views of the town jetty and boat ramp. Most sites are of a large size with little grass on offer.
Crystal Brook Caravan Park is located 198kms North of Adelaide near Port Pirie. The park is situated along a large creek with a well maintained grassed area. The old amenities block offers clean showers and toilets. There isn't much to offer the tourist in Crystal Brook, so this is mainly an R&R type Caravan Park. We enjoyed our stay there and are looking at planning another weekend at Crystal Brook in the near future if possible.
Elliston/Waterloo Caravan Park is located on the Western side of Eyre Peninsula 169kms North of Port Lincoln This is a great little park with very friendly owners which always makes any trip and stop over worth while. Large sites with good grass cover is on offer as well as well maintained ammenatie blocks.. A good park to visit..
Glendambo Caravan Park is located 609kms North West of Adelaide and is situated behind the BP Service Station. The Park offers good size dirt caravan sites and modern facilities. There are ample undercover picnic areas to use and friendly staff to help you with all of your needs.
Flinders Rangers Caravan Park is located 401kms North of Adelaide in the Flinders Rangers. The new modern amenities block offers the user all the modern cons that one would expect plus more. Soap, shampoo, shower mats and the like are on offer to those who want to take advantage of their use. A well and truly nice amenities block for this part of the world. The sites are gravel with shade cloth shelter screens erected at the side of each site for protection from the sun and wind. It is a credit to the owners how they have made an arid landscape setting into a pleasant caravan park.
Kingston Caravan Park is located 296kms South East of Adelaide. This park offers fully grassed sites with two amenity blocks, one being new and the other an older one. The new block is modern and clean. With the Caravan Park being situated against the beach, it is a pity that there was so much sea weed washed up at the time of our stay.
Laura Caravan Park is located 223kms North of Adelaide. It is a small country town park offering clean hot showers and toilets for the overnighter. The park owners are slowly upgrading the grounds and cementing cement slabs on some of the sites. Our main reason for stopping here was for the Laura Folk Fair which was well worth the visit.
Loxton Riverfront Caravan Park is located 256kms East of Adelaide in the Riverland. Situated on the banks of the Murray River, it offers all of those things that any river town has to offer. The main part of the park is in the form of a football oval with the amenities block dropped in the middle. It is one big lawned area with power pole outlets dotted everywhere with the odd tree here and there. Good clean amenities are on offer to park users.
Mannum Caravan Park is located on the banks of the Murray River 84kms East of Adelaide. The park offers a mix of permanent sites as well as tourist sites. Cement and paved blocks are being put down for caravans to erect their annexes onto. The modern brick amenities block offers good clean showers and toilets although the hot water does run out with a large crowd. With the smell of the small fires that the park users have going on a winters night, it makes for a nice stop over. Some sites are on the smaller side for room and would be difficult to get onto in the dark.
Melrose Caravan Park is located 269kms North of Adelaide in the Southern Flinders Rangers. The park offers a mix of gravel and lawned sites along side of the creek that runs between the unpowered camping section and the powered section. The water supply available in the showers would have to be one of the best available that I know of for allowing good quality hot water in the showers. The township of Melrose is at the base of the well know Mount Remarkable.
McLaren Vale Lakeside Caravan Park is located 30 minutes South of Adelaide. The park offers well maintained grass sites and many wineries to visit in the local region. When we stopped here, we had an ensuite site so we cannot comment on the amenities block.
Lake Albert Caravan Park is situated 152kms South East of Adelaide. The park is on the waters edge of Lake Albert and offers some spectacular sunsets for the keen photographer during mid year. All sites are well grassed and most offer some sort of shade. The modern brick amenities block is clean and meets the latest standards. A very nice park to stop at.
Milang Caravan Park is located 97kms South East of Adelaide. The park is on the waters edge of Lake Alexanderina where the town has a large lawned area with playgrounds and bbq's. The Caravan Park has lawn to all sites with a large number of trees throughout the area. The older amenities block offers good clean facilities.
Moonta Bay Caravan Park is located 167kms North West of Adelaide and is situated on the Eastern side of Spencer Gulf. The park offers a mix of tourist and permanent sites with most having little grass coverage. There is an upper level section with reasonable lawn coverage on the sites and a lower level section which has undulating small sites and almost no shade. The best part of the bottom section is that you have absolute beach site frontage. The amenity blocks seem ample in number, but were dirty with sand and tree leaves for most of the time that we were there on this trip. With a few newer toilet blocks and a few trees for shade along with larger and level sites, this park has so much potential. Moonta Bay jetty is located at the corner of the Caravan park offering a good place to wet a line.
Morgan Riverside Caravan Park is located on the banks of the Murray River 165kms North East of Adelaide. This is an old park with open grassed sites. The older amenities block offers clean showers and toilets. There are two parts to the amenities block, although I am not sure at what point they open the second part. One would think when fully booked out, but not always. A nice park to stay in with open fires on a cold night.
Last visited June 2003.
PARK RATING: 6
MOUNT GAMBIER:
Blue Lake Holiday Park is located 439kms South East of Adelaide. The Park has lush green lawns from fence to fence with modern clean amenity blocks. This park is located within walking distance from the famous Blue Lake which is a must to see in the summer time when it is the best colour blue. Be sure to have some blocks to raise one side of your van with, a lot of the sites are not level.
The lawns were in excellent order the last time we were in this Caravan Park.
Kalganyi Holiday Park is located 439kms South East of Adelaide. This Park offers a mix of holiday units to suit all price brackets as well as many powered caravan and tent sites. All powered sites has it's own en-suite block. The lawns are rich green and the sites were large with plenty of room to park the caravan on.
Last visited January 2005.
PARK RATING: 8
MURRAY BRIDGE:
Avoca Dell Caravan Park is located 78kms South East of Adelaide. This Park overlooks the Murray River with terraced sites offering large grassed and gravel sites. The owners of the park are friendly and helpful towards their customers. All modern facilities are on offer. The area immediately in front of the Caravan Park along side of the river is currently getting a face lift with the addition of a boat ramp, car park and lawned area which will make it very popular in the warmer months.
Barossa Valley SA Tourist Park is located in the Barossa 75kms North East of Adelaide. This Caravan Park is situated against the side of the main town sports oval where the hot air balloons take off from. The park offers a mix of lawn and gravel sites and I think there is as many as three amenity blocks. Being in the Barossa, it offers all the usual wineries for the visitor to enjoy.
Point Turton Caravan Park is located in Point Turton which is 250kms from Adelaide on the western side at the bottom of Yorke Peninsula. The Park overlooks the town jetty and boat ramp making it an idea location for anyone who wants to either relax by the sea of chase fish from the jetty or by boat. The Park offers good grassed sites of all sizes with the older amenities block able to support the near capacity crowd that was there during our visit. The Park will even deliver the local Advertiser to your caravan each morning if you pre book it.
Port Augusta Big 4 Holiday park is located at the top of Spencer gulf 305kms North of Adelaide. This is a very clean park with a mix of clean raked gravel sites as well as grassed sites. The amenities block has been upgraded to the latest standards and is of high class offering everything that one could want. We were warned about some people who walk around in the early hours of the morning making a nuisance of themselves, but had no such trouble.
Last visited August 2001.
PARK RATING: 6
Nuttbush Retreat Caravan Park is located 345kms North of Adelaide or 40kms West of Port Augusta on the Perth road. This is a working Sheep Station which has set up a Caravan Park on their property. They offer a mix of lawned and gravel sites with some of them being drive through. Sullage and water is located at most sites. The amenity blocks are of the highest standard, something that some other Caravan Parks should look at.
Last visited October 2004.
PARK RATING: 8
PORT BROUGHTON:
Port Broughton Caravan Park is located on the Eastern side of Spencer Gulf 170kms North of Adelaide. This would have to be one of our most visited parks in South Australia as this trip will make it our 12th Easter here in a row. It offers two large clean and modern amenity blocks with all sites now being dirt as with the current water restrictions and the dry season, the lawns are a thing of the past. Port Broughton is a small sea side town which earns a lot of it's income from tourism.
Port Elliot Tourist Park is located on the beach 82kms South of Adelaide. This is a large park which offers large sites and grass from one end to the other. There are two clean modern amenity blocks which are well set out as well as being evenly spaced within the park. The northern section of the park is closed during the quieter part of the year. Port Elliot is a short drive to either Goolwa or Victor Harbor which offer all of the tourist stuff for visitors.
Last visited November 2005.
PARK RATING: 9
PORT GERMEIN:
Port Germein Progress Association Caravan Park is located 255kms North of Adelaide on the Eastern side of Spencer Gulf. This small Park offers all the usual requirements for an overnight stay or even for those who want to stop longer and try their luck at fishing and crabbing. There is a free bbq as well as a free crab cooker for Park patrons to use. The sites are large with most offering good shade from the hot afternoon sun and a gravel base. Although the amenities block is old, the people running the Park are very friendly and make everyone welcome during their stay.
Last visited February 2005.
PARK RATING: 7
PORT HUGHES:
Port Hughes Tourist Village is located on the Eastern side of Spencer Gulf 171kms North West of Adelaide. The park was still being developed when we were there, but the site that we were using had it's own patch of lawned area, which was great. This sea side town offers fishing from the town jetty and near by Moonta Bay jetty.
Last visited June 2000.
PARK RATING: 6
Port Hughes Foreshore Caravan Park is owned and operated by the Tourist Village listed above. All bookings and payments as well as boom gate key collection is done at the Tourist Village office. The Foreshore Park is located right on the water edge of Spencer Gulf and along side of the town jetty. The sites are large with very little grass cover. The site that we had gave us a great view out over the gulf. The only down side to the Park was the unpleasant smell coming from the men's urinal block which needed some dehodorant blocks.
Kirton Point Caravan Park is located 692kms West of Adelaide at the bottom of Eye Peninsula offering some very spectacular coastal scenery. We were a little disappointed with the condition of the lawn during our stay here, but other than that, is is a very nice park to stop at with wonderful views of the water. One of it's amenity blocks are new offering the latest style to be enjoyed.
Port Pirie Beach Caravan Park is located 229kms North West of Adelaide on the Eastern side of Spencer Gulf. This caravan park has drive through sites and a very nice amenities block. The sites are gravel with a lawn section in the middle between each site giving you somewhere to sit while enjoying the sun. Port Pirie is well known for it's Smelter operations.
Last visited October 2001.
PARK RATING: 7
PORT VINCENT:
Port Vincent Foreshore Caravan Park is located 181kms West of Adelaide on the Western side of Gulf St Vincent. This is a very nice park to stop at although it suffered from wind during our last three stays. The recently completed camp kitchen and tv room are a very nice addition to this Park. All sites are lawned with some of them being right against the beach. The modern amenities block is ample and clean. The only fault with this park would be the code pad to access the amenities which means that those who need glasses to read, require them when going to the shower block to enable them to get in.
Quorn Caravan Park is located 334kms North of Adelaide in the Flinders Ranges. The park is set amongst gum trees offering plenty of shade on dirt sites. The amenities block is clean and small offering restricted room at times, but otherwise good. Quorn is the home of the famous Pitchie Ritchie Railway which is a must to ride on if ever in this part of the state.
Renmark Riverfront Caravan Park is located in the Riverland 256kms North East of Adelaide. With absolute river frontage, it is pure pleasure to visit this park. All of the sites are grassed with plenty of shade on offer. Renmark has many push bike tracks to ride on without getting run over by a car. There are three amenity blocks within the park with one of them due to be upgraded. This caravan Park is in the stages of major upgrades with new cabins and swimming pool plus much more.
Robe Long Beach Caravan Park is located 341kms South East of Adelaide. The Caravan Park is fully grassed with the main amenities block having been upgraded during 2001 and another new one built shortly there after. The park is positioned along Robe Long Beach making it an idea location for those who enjoy the beach. The indoors heated swimming pool which has now been completed, gives the Park users an additional option for swimming.
Spear Creek Caravan Park is located 25kms South East of Port August off Highway 45. This Caravan Park is set amongst gum trees in a semi creek setting making it a real country setting. When we were there, the park was growing an area of lawn giving those who wanted a grassed site the opportunity to have it. The amenity blocks are station country facilities at it's best. We were given a trailer load of scrub timber to burn in the open fire pit as we pleased.
Foreshore Tourist Park Streaky Bay is located 713kms North West of Adelaide. This Caravan Park offers some beach water front sites as well as your normal sites up the centre of the Park. Most sites have cement caravan and annex pads, water and sullage. There are ample amenity facilities for Patrons to use. There is lawn around the main buildings and gravel at all sites.
Tanunda Caravan and Tourist Park is located 74kms North East of Adelaide in the heart of the Barossa Valley. The park has wall to wall lawn with two modern amenity blocks. The area of the Park that we stopped in during our last visit offered excellent shade from some wonderful gum trees. As the Barossa is a premier wine district, there are many wineries to visit in ones spare time.
Tumby Bay Caravan Park is located 646kms North West of Adelaide on the Western side of Spencer Gulf. This is an older Caravan Park with the first half of the grounds being the main section to be used. The park is located near the water making it just right for those evening walks. While having an older amenities building, it offers clean facilities for it's patrons.
Waikerie Caravan Park is located in the Riverland 175kms North East of Adelaide. The disappointing part about this park is that it isn't located directly on the banks of the river. The park almost has a bush setting to it with no lawned areas. The large modern brick amenities block offers clean showers and toilets.
Wallaroo North Beach Caravan park is located 157 ms North West of Adelaide on the Western side of Spencer Gulf. The park offers a mixture of permanent and tourist sites. The main amenities block is an old building offering good clean facilities. This Caravan Park is right along side of the new marina which is being constructed. With the grain shipping facilities, Wallaroo offers a large shipping wharf for the fisherman to use.
Wilpena Pound Camping and Caravan Park is located 481kms North of Adelaide in the flinders Ranges. This is a large camp ground offering mainly a large number of unpowered camping sites and some powered caravan sites. This is a wonderful area with many pretty drives on offer. There are no lawned sites on offer as one might expect, but the atmosphere would be spoilt if lawn was all over the place as that is not what Wilpena is all about. When the camp ground is very busy, it pays to be time selective when wanting to have a hot shower or the water will be cold when you get there.
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