Old Wilpena Station - Hawker
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Old Wilpena Station is one of the most scenically spectacular pastoral settlements in South Australia and has outstanding cultural and heritage significance. Preserved at Old Wilpena Station is the most complete group of early station buildings surviving in South Australia in an authentic pastoral landscape. An important pioneering pastoral run, Wilpena Station was established in 1851 and had a working life of 135 years, before it slipped into retirement in 1985. In 1988 the Wilpena Station lands were added to the Flinders Ranges National Park.
The heritage-listed site is a valuable archive of pastoral history in the Flinders Ranges, with a continued heritage and preserved condition.
Old Wilpena Station is also an important Aboriginal heritage site. Wilpena Pound and the Wilpena Station lands have enduring cultural significance for the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges.
The Old Wilpena Station site has recently opened for self-guided and guided tours. The Living With Land Interpretive Trail explores the themes of self-sufficiency, improvisation and survival on the remote and isolated pastoral settlements of the Flinders Ranges.