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A B C D E F G Thiele'sSandbar Loxton township Major Road Ambulance VisitorInfo. Centre 19 Main Street Hospital Information Board Chemist MURRAY RIVER NAT. PARK WaterTower -KATARAPKO Minor Street Police Attraction Helipad The 2000m2 gardens are always Jehovah's BOOKPURNONG Fire Station Boat Ramp PlaceOfWorship Witnesses 13 TERRACE [C4-E3] open to wander through. Guided 1 Lox on Not rth 1 house tours are available every Walkway Accommodation Lawn Bowls A.N.Z. Berri Prior to the roundabout: Loxton DR discover Sunday at 2pm, or by appointment. Loxton Mildura offers first class sporting facilities, Route Marker B55 CaravanPark Picnic Area Bank S.A. HighSchool Group tours welcome. (Theatre) some of which you will pass, Oneway evreseRemohrotoM Playground including the lawned tennis courts Murray WaterTreatment Tennis Courts and Loxton Bowling Club. LOXTON CLUB INC & Carpark Dump Point Toilets Plant B55 17 R.A.O.B. At the roundabout: Loxton’s LOXTON SPORTING Riverview Golf Course vibrant shopping district of PRECINCT [E2 - F3] Lutheran Loxton Packard Rest Home Lutheran Loxton predominantly locally owned and Loxton Club Inc: Established in 1934, Bend 7 School Moorook and Kingston on Murray operated businesses offers a varied this community venue is well utilised Tree Of and unique range of products. by adults and children alike with a Knowledge Wharf GNONRUPKOOB Be sure to call into a few businesses fabulous under cover playground and 6 Riv re Silos Counterbalanceounterbalance #loxtonsa indoor games room. Membership is to see for yourself. “The Pines” 18 not required for entry - all welcome. 2 Kapunda Island Loxton’s Loxton’s HistorHistoricic 2 Pepper Tree Sturt House and Garden 16 Squash LOXTON RSL Loxton Sporting Precinct: This area is Kapunda Island Memorial 3 Courtsr 14 home to the Loxton Football Club, Conservation Park The Village MILITARY HISTORY 4 Masonic Skate DISPLAY [E3] The Tigers (wearing black and gold EAST Building Park guernseys) and the Loxton Skate utaN re Loxton Located within the Loxton RSL. 5 Hotel 2 Ang. Living Park, as well as providing facilities for Motel Waters Loxton View the ‘Salute our Local Heroes’ Riverland competitions in netball, Show & Rec.Centre Hockey Club display, photographs, uniforms, badges, Loxton basketball, soccer, tennis, baseball, Loxton W kla LoLoxtxton Club Inc. 17 memorabilia, and Honour Rolls for Rotunda Unit. Sporting Precinct hockey, cricket and is home to annual Riverfront DistrictCouncil Loxton, Paruna, Brown’s Well and Tennis Cts Swimming events such as the Loxton Spring Holiday Park Library CarWash surrounding districts. 8 Loxton LibLibraryrary Pool Show and Nippy’s Loxton Gift (a Primary TCE School Open Wednesdays 9.30am to state wide running event). LoxtonLoxton VisitorVisitor InfoInfo CentreCentre ateliner drive 4.00pm or by arrangement. Phone 1 StatelinerCoachT Coacherm. Terminal 0414 382 806, 0418 856 727 or COUNTERBALANCE KOKODA 0407 602 140. 18 3 Cross of Sacrifice C.W.A. 3 [F2] Luth. 13 TPioneer KURBO Mem. Loxton Pioneer KOKODA Garde Playground This sculpture was commissioned 12 KURBO 15 LOXTON PIONEER Viewing E TCE to acknowledge Loxton’s 2007 9 TC EC W 15 Area GN Hentschke PLAYGROUND [E3] ONRUPKOOB Centenary and reflects the town’s Loxton Hospital Memorial Rose Loxton Pre-School Complex Garden 14 A modern, creative and exciting community spirit, celebrating the past Centre St. Alberts play space offering loads of fun for and building optimism for the future. Senior School children of all ages and abilities. The sculpture expresses a balance Citizens Cath. Expand your imagination as you between opposing forces: light and Luth. play on the wide assortment of play dark, strong and vulnerable, earth Cemetery equipment. The area is fully fenced Guide and water, culture and nature as DogDog Tennis Scout Hall and provides picnic tables, benches, Courts Hall shelters, toilets, lawns and free BBQ’s . well as the strength of the human spirit and the developing town in the Open 7 days and it’s free. 11 Taplan Adjacent to the Cross of Sacrifice on face of isolation, drought, war and Moorook the lawns between Kokoda Tce and prejudice. 4 Kingston On Murray 4 C mom inuty C esno rva noit Tobruk Tce, Loxton. Waikerie & egatireH Park THIELE’S SANDBAR Swan Reach 10 ‘THE PINES’ LOXTON’S 119 [G1] Tailem Bend T EC DR 16 HISTORIC HOUSE & Loxton’s climate provides the perfect Murray Bridge B55 GARDEN [E2] opportunity to relax, set up camp Adelaide NOTSGNIK walk ‘The Pines’, Loxton’s Historic House alongside the river, and dangle a line. and Garden was bequeathed to Thiele’s Sandbar is a very popular SCALE the people of Loxton by Mrs Ella location and has an abundance of 5004003002001000 1000 Kingdon. camping and fi shing spots, just a Paruna METRES Pinnaroo B57 Visitors are given a glimpse into the short distance from the town centre. No camping fees apply. C RAASA NOVEMBER 2007 Bordertown lifestyle of the benefactor. Antique Base map and data supplied courtesy of the RAA of SA Inc. and reproduced with permission. Mt Gambier furniture, silverware, fine china, Dry weather track only. collectables, water colours and A B C D E F G 5 tapestries are on display. For further information please contact the Loxton Visitor Information Centre On the roundabout, 43a Bookpurnong Terrace, Loxton SA Loxton Walking & Nature Trails Loxton township (see map overleaf) Open: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm LOXTON VISITOR LOXTON’S VIEWING AREA: CNR Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays 10am-2pm 1 4 9 ������������ INFORMATION CENTRE PEPPER TREE [D2] OF SOPHIE EDINGTON (Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day) & THE TERRACE There is more than one version DRIVE & THIELE AVE [B3] ������ GALLERY [E3] of the story of the Pepper Tree, This is one of the best vantage points Phone: (08) 8584 8071 ���� ����� Before you head off on your however, it is possible that this in Loxton providing panoramic ����������������� ������������ drive pop into the Loxton Visitor tree was planted by Mrs Howell in views across the Murray River to www.visitloxton.com.au ���� ������ 1878 from peppercorns collected ����� �������� Information Centre to collect any the Murray River National Park and �������������������� ���� further information you may require by William Charles Loxton, a Katarapko Creek. During the 1956 ���� ��� LOXTON RIVERFRONT Disclaimer: Whilst every effort has been made to verify the correct details in this ������� on where to stay and eat, brochures, boundary rider on Bookpurnong 6 flood much of what you are looking ����� maps, souvenirs, gift lines, local Station and a horseman of some & THE TREE OF at would have been underwater. publication, Loxton Visitor Information Centre does not accept liability for any error KNOWLEDGE [C2] or omission. Printed: April 2018. Photographs: Paul White, Jane Wilson, Loxton News, ������������ art, craft and produce. Stateliner note. (Bookpurnong Station was passenger and freight agents. a sheep farming property of 485 Driving along the riverfront takes COMMUNITY Sharon Casey, Renae Harman. square miles that included the land you downstream past Kapunda 10 CONSERVATION & ������������ ����������� Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, ������������������� ����� Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 10am-2pm. on which the town of Loxton has Island Conservation Park to the HERITAGE PARK [C4] Holiday ���� ������ developed). Lion’s Park where you can see at a This community project consists � � William Loxton lived here with glance how severely a high river can ��������� EAST TERRACE & THE his wife from 1878 to1881 in the of a 800 metre trail with its environs �������������� �������� 2 affect this region. ������������� LOXTON HOTEL [D2] modest pine and pug hut formerly featuring an early homestead ruin, native plants, garden beds East Terrace is Loxton’s vibrant occupied by his aunt, Mrs Howell, By studying the river levels on this ���������������� and ornamental fruit trees which shopping district of predominantly and her husband. The area around magnificent old river red gum, you collectively depict Loxton from its locally owned and operated this hut was known as ‘Loxton’s Hut’ can begin to understand the cycles ����������� �������� ������ and impact of the Murray River settlement through to today. Enjoy � businesses which offer a varied and and eventually, ‘Loxton’. � ��������� a gentle walk and stretch your legs. ������ unique range of products. System. Be sure to look up high at Tree Sculptures: Lopped Aleppo ������ The Rotunda was built to remember the 1956 flood level! �������������� Pine Trees provided the opportunity Signage is provided for the soldiers who lost their lives Along the way you’ll pass two sealed for the trunks to be sculptured your convenience along the ����������� in World Wars I and II as well as boat ramps, public conveniences, into public art. Riverland artist Tim ������������������� Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam. trails and is presented on BBQ’s, mooring facilities and a Baulderstone carved the trunks with The ceramic tiles surrounding the a noticeable yellow framed children’s play area. a chainsaw and an angle grinder into Rotunda are by Australian artist sign highlighting your location ������� native animals, flora and fauna from ������ Stephen Bowers and depict the Dog Park PACKARD BEND [A2] designs by Year 9 art students from and route options Riverland environment. 7 THE VILLAGE [D2] Named in honour of the the Loxton High School. ������������� At the front of the Library stands 5 government surveyor Francis Joseph ��������������������� At The Village, Loxton you ��������������������� a uniquely shaped fountain with will step back in time; to a time Packard, who drowned here from LOXTON DOG PARK [C4] the surrounding copper plaques cramp on August 14th 1866, aged 11 portraying the history, development before television airconditioners and Let your dog off leash, at computers; to a time when bread 23, whilst surveying to define the ���������������� and future of the Loxton area. This eastern border of South Australia. the Loxton Dog Park. This park was made by local resident Vern was baked at home in a wood- provides a fully fenced and lawned fuelled oven, milk came directly from This is a popular recreational area �������������� Wilksch.