Glenthorne  National Park-Ityamaiitpinna Yarta

Trail­head and ranger sta­tion car park open 8am to 7pm daily.

Clo­sures and safety

This park is closed on days of Cat­a­stroph­ic Fire Dan­ger and may also be closed on days of Extreme Fire Danger.

You can deter­mine the cur­rent fire dan­ger rat­ing by check­ing the Fire Ban Dis­trict map on the CFS website.

Check the CFS web­site or call the CFS Bush­fire Infor­ma­tion Hot­line 1800 362 361 for:

• Infor­ma­tion on fire bans and cur­rent fire conditions
• Cur­rent CFS warn­ings and incidents
• Infor­ma­tion on what to do in the event of a fire.

Lis­ten to your local area radio sta­tion for the lat­est updates and infor­ma­tion on fire safety.

Vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion, book­ings and park management:

Black Hill Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Office
Phone: (+61) 7133 7300
Email: DEW.​NPWSSouthMetro@​sa.​gov.​au

Emer­gency contacts:

Med­ical, fire (includ­ing bush­fire) and police emer­gency sit­u­a­tions
Phone: Triple Zero (000)

Police Assis­tance
Phone: 131 444 for non-urgent police assistance

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA – After-hours duty offi­cer
Phone: 0427 556 676

Injured wildlife:

With­in the park
Please con­tact Black Hill Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Office on (+61) 7133 7300 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on 0427 556 676 (out­side of busi­ness hours).

Out­side of the park
Please con­tact a local wildlife res­cue group

Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta is locat­ed 16 km south of Adelaide. 

Access is via Majors Road, O’Halloran Hill. 

Park maps.

Dogs are wel­come in the for­mer O’Halloran Hill Recre­ation Park and along the 4km Trail Loop in Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta. 

Please ensure you: 

• Keep your dog under con­trol and on a lead no more than 2 metres in length.
• Stick to des­ig­nat­ed walk­ing trails.
• Bring dis­pos­able bags to clean up your dog’s fae­ces (please be aware there are no bins in nation­al parks).

Dis­cov­er oth­er parks you can walk your dog in on our find a park tool or read 12 dog-friend­ly walks in Ade­laide Parks by Good Liv­ing for inspiration. 

Assis­tance dogs are per­mit­ted in most pub­lic places and are there­fore wel­come in South Australia’s parks and reserves. Assis­tance dogs must be appro­pri­ate­ly restrained on a lead and remain under your effec­tive con­trol at all times while in a park or reserve. 

As per the dogs in parks and reserves pol­i­cy, if the dog is not an accred­it­ed assis­tance dog, they must be trained to assist a per­son with a dis­abil­i­ty to alle­vi­ate that dis­abil­i­ty and meet stan­dards of hygiene and behav­iour appro­pri­ate for a dog in a pub­lic place. How­ev­er, refusal may be giv­en if the per­son with the dis­abil­i­ty is unable to pro­duce evi­dence the dog is an assis­tance dog with the appro­pri­ate training. 

Before tak­ing your assis­tance dog into a park that does not nor­mal­ly allow dogs, it is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed that you con­tact us so we can pro­vide you with the lat­est infor­ma­tion on any poten­tial haz­ards with­in spe­cif­ic parks that may affect your dog. Please con­tact the park via the con­tact details pro­vid­ed under the con­tact tab or con­tact the vis­i­tor ser­vice cen­tre via email or on Face­book.

As Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta is a new nation­al park, infra­struc­ture is still under construction. 

Cur­rent­ly, there are no facil­i­ties in the park. Please ensure you car­ry suf­fi­cient water, food and sup­plies for your entire vis­it. It is also a good idea to let a respon­si­ble per­son know of your intend­ed move­ments and when you expect to return. 

• Explore what oth­er nature and out­door activ­i­ties are avail­able in this area on the South Aus­tralia Tourism website.
• Mobile phone cov­er­age is good in most areas of the park.
• Parks man­age­ment plans
• Trails SA
• SA Marine Parks
• Impor­tant: Col­lec­tion of fire­wood with­in Nation­al Parks is pro­hib­it­ed. Dead wood plays a vital role in pro­vid­ing shel­ter for ani­mals and adding nutri­ents to the soil.

Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta will not only ben­e­fit the com­mu­ni­ty, it will help pre­serve, re-estab­lish and re-con­nect impor­tant habi­tat for native plants and animals. 

More than 90 bird species have been record­ed at Glen­thorne. Stay a while and you might be lucky enough to spot small flocks of yel­low-tailed black cock­a­toos and the more elu­sive grey fantail. 

Keep an eye out for these com­mon­ly sight­ed birds: 

• Ade­laide Rosel­la — Platyc­er­cusade­laidae
• Grey fan­tail — Rhipidu­ra albis­capa
• Kook­abur­ra — Dace­lo novaeguineae
• Willie wag­tail — Rhipidu­ra leu­cophrys
• Yel­low-tailed black cock­a­too — Calyp­torhynchus funereus
• Yel­low-faced hon­eyeater — Lichenos­to­mus chrysops.

Glen­thorne Nation­al Park- Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta also has impor­tant grey­box grassy wood­land, with some scat­tered remant grey­box trees and areas of grass­land remain­ing on the site. 

The Kau­r­na Peo­ple are the Tra­di­tion­al Own­ers of the lands and waters of the greater Ade­laide region, includ­ing Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta. They main­tain a deep rela­tion­ship with Coun­try, and have done so for tens of thou­sands of years through their cus­toms and Tjukurpa. 

Tjukur­pa, which includes cul­tur­al sto­ries and lore, is vital to under­stand­ing the cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance of South­ern Ade­laide, and will pro­found­ly influ­ence the way the Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta is managed.

Glen­thorne Nation­al Park-Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta will include a num­ber of his­tor­i­cal­ly impor­tant areas that will be pre­served as part of the park. 

The for­mer Glen­thorne prop­er­ty has a rich his­to­ry, set­tled in 1839 by the state’s first police com­mis­sion­er Major Thomas Shuld­ham O’Halloran. It has been used as a farm, a train­ing ground for mil­i­tary hors­es in WWI, a research facil­i­ty from 1949, and is now set to become a her­itage precinct with­in the park. 

Each of these phas­es of his­to­ry are reflect­ed in the his­tor­i­cal build­ing remains on the site, dat­ing back to the 1950s. 

The old Wor­thing Mine build­ings in the Low­er Field Riv­er Val­ley also pro­vide an exam­ple of how cop­per min­ing took place in South Aus­tralia in the 1800s.