The Riesling & Rattler Trails
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A brilliant blend. brilliant A distances, directions, services and stories. and services directions, distances, Clare Valley. Clare suite of trail markers you encounter along the way feature feature way the along encounter you markers trail of suite 8 Morehead Street, Burra Street, Morehead 8 College Road intersection. Road College Barinia Road. Barinia (08) 8892 2888 2888 8892 (08) Burra Bike Hire Bike Burra ground and visit even more attractions of the region. The The region. the of attractions more even visit and ground more cellar doors, and meets the main trail at the the at trail main the meets and doors, cellar more over the Quarry Road bridge, through White Hut and onto onto and Hut White through bridge, Road Quarry the over can return to your starting point without going over the same same the over going without point starting your to return can Victoria Road, Clare Clare Road, Victoria 32 The loop then heads sharply downhill to the east, past past east, the to downhill sharply heads then loop The extension of the Riesling Trail to the north for another 10km, 10km, another for north the to Trail Riesling the of extension experienced rider the Riesling Trail offers three loops so you you so loops three offers Trail Riesling the rider experienced (08) 8842 2782 2782 8842 (08) Clare Valley Cycle Hire Cycle Valley Clare through the Skilly Hills to Spring Gully Conservation Park. Park. Conservation Gully Spring to Hills Skilly the through www.clarevalley.com.au township. From here riders can continue to follow the new new the follow to continue can riders here From township. to the trail in Auburn, Watervale, Sevenhill and Clare. For the the For Clare. and Sevenhill Watervale, Auburn, in trail the to 35 Main North Road, Clare Clare Road, North Main 35 Information Centre. It follows the major scenic drive drive scenic major the follows It Centre. Information station. The trailhead here provides easy access to the Clare Clare the to access easy provides here trailhead The station. town (and even between towns). There are car parks close close parks car are There towns). between even (and town (08) 8842 2848 8842 (08) Caltex Roadhouse Caltex Caravan Park before turning west at the Clare Valley Visitor Visitor Valley Clare the at west turning before Park Caravan ttingly as it began, at the site of a former Clare railway railway Clare former a of site the at began, it as ttingly fi as journey from a number of sign-posted side roads in each each in roads side sign-posted of number a from journey Main North Road, Clare Road, North Main loop travels a short distance along Main North Road to the the to Road North Main along distance short a travels loop A brilliant blend. brilliant A of the striking Quarry Road Bridge. In Clare the trail pauses, pauses, trail the Clare In Bridge. Road Quarry striking the of time and make the trail a leisurely pursuit. You can start your your start can You pursuit. leisurely a trail the make and time (08) 8842 2724 2724 8842 (08) Clare Caravan Park Caravan Clare Heading west from the Wendouree Road intersection, this this intersection, Road Wendouree the from west Heading Clare Valley. Clare supplies. From here it is a gentle descent toward Clare by way way by Clare toward descent gentle a is it here From supplies. attractions and accommodation close by, give yourself more more yourself give by, close accommodation and attractions College Road, Sevenhill Road, College (Mountain bikes recommended) bikes (Mountain complete with rainwater tank to replenish your water water your replenish to tank rainwater with complete countryside justice, and enjoy the hospitality of the wineries, wineries, the of hospitality the enjoy and justice, countryside (08) 8843 4222 4222 8843 (08) Sevenhill Cellars Sevenhill Spring Gully Loop 16km Loop Gully Spring nd a new shelter, shelter, new a nd fi also will you here Near Cellars. Sevenhill 2.5 hours and walked in about 9 hours. To do the lovely lovely the do To hours. 9 about in walked and hours 2.5 30 Main North Road, Auburn Road, North Main 30 tting rewards for the extra effort. extra the for rewards tting fi are Museum Church Polish As you cross College Road near Sevenhill, take a detour to to detour a take Sevenhill, near Road College cross you As At 35km, the Riesling Trail can be ridden one way in about about in way one ridden be can Trail Riesling the 35km, At or 0400 290 682 290 0400 or views from the three wineries and the stories told at the the at told stories the and wineries three the from views (08) 8849 2380 2380 8849 (08) Cogwebs European settler and founder of the village. the of founder and settler European people, the communities and local heroes. local and communities the people, to the next valley, this is steeper than the main trail, but the the but trail, main the than steeper is this valley, next the to 10 Warenda Road, Clare Road, Warenda 10 rst rst fi region’s the was who explorer young the Horrocks, John storyboards about the history, the landscape, the Ngadjuri Ngadjuri the landscape, the history, the about storyboards information centres in the region. the in centres information leads to Polish Hill Valley. Because you are crossing a ridge ridge a crossing are you Because Valley. Hill Polish to leads 0418 777 318 318 777 0418 Riesling Trail Bike Hire Hire Bike Trail Riesling the Pawelski Road intersection there is a storyboard about about storyboard a is there intersection Road Pawelski the villages and the hills. Along the way there are picnic spots and and spots picnic are there way the Along hills. the and villages or pick up a brochure from the the from brochure a up pick or This loop leaves the main trail just north of Penwortham, and and Penwortham, of north just trail main the leaves loop This towards Penwortham and passes under Main North Road. At At Road. North Main under passes and Penwortham towards laneways and embankments that give sweeping views of of views sweeping give that embankments and laneways BIKE HIRE BIKE www.southaustraliantrails.com www.southaustraliantrails.com (Mountain bikes recommended) bikes (Mountain and a small gum plantation. The trail rises gently as it heads heads it as gently rises trail The plantation. gum small a and pram users. There are wooded sections that feel like English English like feel that sections wooded are There users. pram For further information visit visit information further For Father Rogalksi Loop 10km Loop Rogalksi Father before opening out again to views of vineyards, farmlands farmlands vineyards, of views to again out opening before for walkers and cyclists of all levels, as well as wheelchair and and wheelchair as well as levels, all of cyclists and walkers for main trail at the site of the Sevenhill siding. Sevenhill the of site the at trail main and passes through a cutting providing shade and solitude solitude and shade providing cutting a through passes and quality, compacted surface and easy gradient makes it ideal ideal it makes gradient easy and surface compacted quality, the Spring Gully Loop as it heads past the pub and meets the the meets and pub the past heads it as Loop Gully Spring the of Riesling country. From Watervale the trail is elevated elevated is trail the Watervale From country. Riesling of farms, natural bushland and world-renowned wine region. A A region. wine world-renowned and bushland natural farms, food places. From Sawmill Road the loop shares a section of of section a shares loop the Road Sawmill From places. food you reach the small town of Watervale and the very heart heart very the and Watervale of town small the reach you Road, and provides ever-changing views of vineyards, mixed mixed vineyards, of views ever-changing provides and Road, along the Riesling Trail. Riesling the along nd several notable cellar doors and good good and doors cellar notable several nd fi will You Creek. Auburn the trail reaches Leasingham and two kilometres on on kilometres two and Leasingham reaches trail the Auburn former railway from Auburn to Clare and 10km north to Barinia Barinia to north 10km and Clare to Auburn from railway former NB: There is mobile phone coverage coverage phone mobile is There NB: Church to the village of Penwortham and on to Skillogalee Skillogalee to on and Penwortham of village the to Church cent views. Seven kilometres from from kilometres Seven views. cent magnifi the in take and rest The Riesling Trail follows the contours and curves of the the of curves and contours the follows Trail Riesling The Phone...................................(08) 8842 6500 8842 Phone...................................(08) This loop heads west from the trail, past St Mark’s Anglican Anglican Mark’s St past trail, the from west heads loop This art installation on this leg of the trail – it’s worth stopping to to stopping worth it’s – trail the of leg this on installation art Clare to Barinia Road, White Hut 10km Hut White Road, Barinia to Clare 47 Farrell Flat Road, Clare SA 5453 SA Clare Road, Flat Farrell 47 panoramic landscapes. Look out also for a new shelter and and shelter new a for also out Look landscapes. panoramic John Horrocks Loop 9km Loop Horrocks John Sevenhill to Clare 7km Clare to Sevenhill Hospital lled with vineyards and and vineyards with lled fi country farming open through Watervale to Sevenhill 9km Sevenhill to Watervale AND USE SEALED AND UNSEALED ROADS.) UNSEALED AND SEALED USE AND Police .................................