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Adelaide to Mount Gambier Strip maps show distances, roadside features and town facilities on a simple flip-over STAPLE MOUNT style map, which can be used in both directions. HERE GAMBIER They’re not drawn to scale. Strip map features: 100 Cumulative distances Located in the columns on either side of the map, they can be matched to your car’s trip meter for a ready reference. Intermediate distances These show distances between points along the map. Naracoorte Town facilities Hotels, motels, post offices, caravan parks, fuel (in remote areas). Narrative Includes caution notes, road surface, a description of the country traversed, town 109 narratives and populations. Experiences & accommodation If you are looking for experiences and accommodation during your road trip, visit our website satravel.raa.com.au, which offers member exclusive discounts on a range of experiences and accommodation across SA. Keith Legend ALT A1 1 1 21 Route Markers PO Post Oce Bridge H Hotel P Parking Bay Overpass R M Motel Rest Area Railway Crossing 128 Total Distance 435 Kilometres Total CP Caravan Park Windmill Railway Station / Siding Accom. Accomodation Airfield via Dukes and Riddoch Hwys Tailem Bend 435 Kilometres Adelaide 33 Mt Barker 65 98 65 Tailem Bend 226 193 128 Keith 335 302 237 109 Naracoorte Mount Barker 435 402 337 209 100 Mt Gambier 33 ADELAIDE Adelaide to Mount Gambier via Dukes and Riddoch Hwys Major Arterial Routes & Suburbs This map is intended to aid planning - alternative maps should be used if more detail is needed. Clare STURT HWY Burra Blanchetown Broken Hill Renmark Two Wells Port Wakefield GAWLER Port Augusta PORT EXP. WAKEFIELD RD Virginia Munno Para Williamstown NORTHERN NORTHCraigmore CONN. Elizabeth Waterloo Corner Outer Harbor Salisbury Golden RD Grove Kersbrook NORTHERN MAIN Tea Tree Largs Bay Gepps Modbury Gully Gumeracha Cross Semaphore Rd Grand Junction Rd Port Port Adelaide Rd Holden N.E. Hill Rd Wood- RD West Lakes ville Rd North Main Campbelltown Portrush Grange Hill Magill Henley ADELAIDE Beach Norwood CITY Burnside Rd West Beach Tapleys Hyde Plympton Park PRINCES Glenelg Cross Rd Rd Oakbank Belair SOUTH HWY Brighton Marion Crafers Stirling Kingston Park Brighton Hahndorf Blackwood Bridgewater Murray Bridge RD Tailem Bend Hallett Cove Rd Happy Lonsdale Valley SOUTH MT BARKER Reynella Christies Woodcroft Echunga Beach Morphett Vale MAIN Port Hackham Noarlunga Meadows Mclaren Vale SM-ADEL 0520 Adelaide to Mount Gambier Adelaide and Riddoch Hwys via Dukes Visit satravel.raa.com.au/adelaide/south-australia 2 Murray Bridge 43 Macclesfield 16 km Adelaide Tailem Bend 65 B37 Via Princes Hwy M1 1 - Mount Barker 33 H PO MOUNT 0 Littlehampton 1 33 kilometres BARKER Route M1 H CP PO RAA Shop Princes Hwy (South Eastern Freeway) HWY 6 8 Caution Echunga 8 Only motorised vehicles are permitted on the M1 freeway (no pedestrians, bicycles or animals). H M CP PO Hahndorf Adelaide (approximate population 1,295,710) 4 Located on the banks of the River Torrens, PRINCES Adelaide is the capital of South Australia. Oakbank 7 Balhannah 5 Thanks to the foresight of Surveyor-General Approximate 25 North 8 Colonel William Light, this well-designed city Verdun is blessed with wide roads and expansive park H 4 lands. Every year, the festivities and events of 3 ‘Mad March’ attract thousands of visitors from around the world. FWY) H PO 1 Bridgewater Hahndorf 21 Mylor 6 12 (approximate population 2,670) Carey Gully 6 Hahndorf was established in 1839 by 187 Lenswood 15 2 Rd H PO German immigrants, who were fleeing (S.E. 5 Aldgate persecution at home. Their ship’s Danish captain, Dirk Hahn, helped secure 100 acres Barker Old Carey Gully Rd for the new settlement, which was named in Mt. his honour. The main street has a distinctly Carey Gully 5 PRINCES 1 2 German feel, and many of the historic buildings 1 Stirling have become galleries, restaurants, and food Uraidla 6 H PO 16 Old 1 17 shops selling German pastries and smallgoods. Lenswood 18 Staying the night? We recommend The Manna 1 1 H PO Crafers by Haus. 15 18 Mt. Lofty 3 Belair 11 Uraidla 11 Mount Barker 2 (approximate population 13,840) M1 Once a quiet farming village, Mount Barker has rapidly developed into a major town, servicing 13 20 local industry and providing a residential 1 retreat for commuters to Adelaide. P Measday's Lookout 4 Eagle-On-The-Hill Alternate route Tunnels The South Eastern Freeway allows for fast, safe Eagle Mountain P Bike Park travel, but an alternate route via Mount Barker 3 Road explores the towns of Stirling, Aldgate, HWY Bridgewater and Hahndorf. Quaint antique 9 Mt. 24 shops, galleries, restaurants, wineries, and Mt. Osmond 3 P Barker 2 magnificent scenery can be found throughout the Adelaide Hills. Uraidla 16 Greenhill Rd 7 26 Rd Cross Country traversed Rd Freeway conditions. Undulating to hilly with A17 A21 Rd some long grades. Portrush A3 Rd Osmond 6 A21 Rd Road surface Gepps Cross 16 Wakefield Unley Fullarton Glen ADELAIDE Bitumen. St South Tce H M CP PO RAA Shop D'Qville Tce St Rd 0 1 Goodwood 33 NOT TO SCALE Rd King Wm Victoria Sq. RAASA GPO Adelaide to Mount Gambier Adelaide and Riddoch Hwys via Dukes km SM0001 0520 Visit satravel.raa.com.au/adelaide-hills/south-australia 3 Loxton 159 Bordertown 173 Meningie 50 km Mount Barker Karoonda 49 Via Dukes Hwy A8 - Tailem Bend 2 TAILEM BEND Princes B1 H M CP PO 65 kilometres PO Hwy Routes M1 and A1 Ferry Jervois 65 1 0 Princes Hwy Information Bay (South Eastern Freeway between Mt Barker and the Wellington 11 Swanport Bridge) HWY A1 Murray 12 Caution Approximate Only motorised vehicles are North permitted on the freeway (no River 20 pedestrians, bicycles or animals). PRINCES 53 12 1 R Mount Barker 50 3 Monteith 15 (approximate population 13,840) 48 Karoonda 63 2 3 17 Mannum 27 Once a quiet farming village, Mount 5 Swanport Bridge Lookout Barker has rapidly developed into a B55 major town, servicing local industry Swanport H 4 H and providing a residential retreat 44 2 21 for commuters to Adelaide. 3 1 2 5 PO 2 Murray Bridge Brinkley 10 Murray Bridge B55 M1 (approximate population 16,800) H M CP PO RAA Shop 5 3 White Hill Interchange Murray Bridge was once a river 39 26 (S.E. terminal for farm and fish products, Mannum 32 2 and passengers travelling Pope Rd 2 downstream from Morgan. Today, 3 Brinkley 11 it’s the centre of commerce for P P 3 FWY) the surrounding rural areas; the 10 rich river flats supporting dairying, 5 Monarto Safari Park cereal crops and vegetable growing. Ferries - McDonald Rd 29 Monarto South Milang 49 36 Wellington 47 Tailem Bend M1 Monarto 5 PRINCES (approximate population 1,670) The town’s name is thought to come 7 from an Aboriginal word for ‘bend’, referring to the major change of 9 direction the River Murray takes as 4 1 it heads towards Lake Alexandrina. 1 20 1 45 Nearby, The Bend Motorsport Park Callington Bremer Strathalbyn 22 3 Valley has one of the longest racetracks in 4 the world. Visitors can book a driver Harrogate 16 1 or passenger ‘hot lap’ experience, Kanmantoo 11 or take their own cars for a spin on 10 20 ‘open track’ days. Just out of town on the Adelaide road, Old Tailem Town has more than 100 buildings Harrogate 12 Dawsley M1 from yesteryear, as well as vehicles P and other artefacts. 4 6 4 H PO P Country traversed Nairne 2 3 Rolling hills with some long grades HWY Wistow 6 east of Mount Barker, levelling out Bald Hills 3 towards Tailem Bend. Woodside 10 Interchange 3 B37 Macclesfield 16 Littlehampton 1 Road surface 0 H PO 1 MOUNT 65 Bitumen. Balhannah 8 M1 BARKER Hahndorf 6 H CP PO RAA Shop Adelaide 34 Via Princes Hwy km NOT TO SCALE RAASA Adelaide to Mount Gambier Adelaide and Riddoch Hwys via Dukes SM0002 0520 Visit satravel.raa.com.au/murray-river-lakes-and-coorong/south-australia 4 Bordertown 45 km Tailem Bend Via Dukes Hwy - Keith A8 KEITH Pinnaroo 138 1 H M CP PO 128 kilometres PO Routes A1 and A8 Old Settlers Cottage 2 Mt. Monster Cons. Park 14 Dukes Highway A66 Padthaway 62 128 Naracoorte 109 0 Info. Bay Via Riddoch Hwy Tailem Bend (approximate population 1,670) A8 Martins Camp Rd The town’s name is thought to 14 come from an Aboriginal word for ‘bend’, referring to the major Monument R & R change of direction the River 114 Coombe (Locality) 14 Ngarkat 2 Murray takes as it heads towards 112 SnoswellRd 16 DUKES Lake Alexandrina. Nearby, The Conservation Mt. Rescue 5 Bend Motorsport Park has one Ngarkat Cons. Pk 5 of the longest racetracks in the Park R world. Visitors can book a driver 20 Woods Well or passenger ‘hot lap’ experience, or take their own cars for a spin on R The Coorong 51 Tintinara H H CP PO ‘open track’ days. Just out of town 92 PO 36 on the Adelaide road, Old Tailem HWY Tintinara H.S. 8 Town has more than 100 buildings Carcuma Rd 12 Tolmer Rocks H.S. 23 from yesteryear, as well as vehicles Geranium Culburra P Boothby Rocks 30 and other artefacts. 80 (Locality) 48 R Boothby Rd R Coonalpyn Coonalpyn H.S. 14 (approximate population 350) Heinrich Mt Boothby Nat. Pk 16 Rd A8 12 Once known as the Ninety Mile Woods Well 46 68 60 Desert, the region was converted Lameroo 85 4 to productive pastoral land by Geranium 56 H 64 PO R Coonalpyn 64 replacing trace elements and H CP PO adding liberal top dressings of super-phosphate.
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