Pooginook Conservation Park

Pooginook Conservation Park

Multiple parks, reserves and wilderness protected areas in the Riverland and Murraylands will be closed from midnight 25 May until midnight 31 May 2025 for an aerial pest control program targeting feral goats and pigs Details

Park fees:
Free entry
212.65km from Adelaide
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The dense mallee scrub in the north­ern part of the park pro­vides shel­ter to a range of wildlife, includ­ing kan­ga­roos, echid­nas, hairy-nosed wom­bats, fat-tailed dun­narts and the rare malleefowl. In con­trast, the south­ern sec­tion fea­tures open mallee as the area was once large­ly used for wheat farming.

The park pro­vides good oppor­tu­ni­ties for bird watch­ing. Keep a look out for black-eared min­ers, hon­eyeaters and many oth­er colour­ful mallee birds. Dur­ing spring the park blos­soms, dis­play­ing a vari­ety of colour­ful mallee plants. The park’s camp­ing ground is acces­si­ble to con­ven­tion­al vehi­cles, how­ev­er, some sec­tions of the bound­ary road are only acces­si­ble by 4WD.