Top Things to do in Yorke Peninsula
Top Hotels in Yorke Peninsula
The 10 Best Things to do in Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Discover the best top things to do in Yorke Peninsula, Australia including The Farm Shed Museum, Splash Town - Copper Coast, Moonta Mines Museum, Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum, Wallaroo Heritage Trail 37, Moonta Bay Jetty, Edithburgh Tidal Pool, Watsacowie Brewing Company, Port Wakefield Wharf, Butlers Beach.
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1. The Farm Shed Museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 41 reviews
The Farm Shed Museum brings together some of the fascinating developments and practices of dry land farming. You will discover; the way of rural life; a magnificent collection of vintage tractors; a delightful display highlighting women's contribution to farming; fascinating stories about local characters; an impressive display of farming machinery; more than a century of Australia farming history and one of cereal farmings greatest innovations, the stump-jump plough. Visitors will also be delighted by Matta House, a mine manger's residence from the 1860's refurbished in its original location and memories of school days gone by will come alive when you enter the 1950's school house. You will leave with a renewed appreciation of how far farming and society has come.
Reviewed By mike98123
Our 5 year old daughter loved it, lots of exhibits and really well presented. Putt putt mini golf course nearby too.
2. Splash Town - Copper Coast
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 26 reviews
Splash Town has closed for the 2019/20 season, dates and times for the next season will be advised once they are confirmed. Splash Town is the Copper Coasts FREE water park for children and families alike! Located at the Moonta Bay foreshore, Splash Town will provide hours of fun in the sun!
Reviewed By DML - Hallett Cove, Australia
Fabulous outside water play facility for kids (young and old). Different water slide options, tipping bucket and more. Seating and toilets available and parking nearby. Water is (of course) very chlorinated but the hug smile on my daughter's face when here was a joy to see. Wish there were more facilities like this in SA.
3. Moonta Mines Museum
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4.5 based on 124 reviews
The museum is located in the former Moonta Mines Model School, erected in 1878. The school remained an active and important centre for the Moonta Mines community for ninety years and closed in 1968. The museum has 15 rooms and houses thematic displays on the Cornish miners' lifestyles - mining, lodges and friendly societies, sports and pastimes, death and hardship, extensive displays of costumes, china, silverware, photographs and memorabilia and a classroom furnished c.1900.
Reviewed By SusanC4948 - Melbourne, Australia
The Moonta Mines Museum consists of the museum itself, a 45 minute train ride at the adjoining Moonta Mines Railway and the self-guided Moonta Mines Walking trails that allow you to explore the geology and mining ruins in the area. We started our visit with the Hughes walk about 650 metres from the complex. It is a heritage walk around the Hughes Engine House and the ruins near it. There is a brochure available online and from the Moonta Mines Museum and Moonta Tourist Office but the walk is well sign-posted. I found the main structures quite evocative and excellent photography subjects. One of the children we know, who visited separately, was enamoured with seeing the “Repunzel” tower. Nearby is the Moonta Mines Uniting Church along Bower St with a Sunday School Museum but the tourist services are currently suspended due to COVID but you can peek in the windows from the steps that take you to the higher storey. The Museum itself in located in fourteen rooms of the old Moonta Mines Model School. I found it a well-structured display of the Moonta miner’s lifestyle. Highlights for me were the mining exhibits at the start, the Cornish heritage, the cartoons and biography of Oswald Prior and, towards the end, the old classroom looking like a small lecture theatre. Another family member found the geology exhibit interesting. The music, death and societies rooms (at the end) were the least engaging but were still presented in a manner that made them interesting. There was a sign saying a photography permit was required but that is only for more professional photography; hand-held no-flash photography was allowed without one. This attraction is run by the National Trust of SA. It was free for us Vic Trust members but $8 for the museum for my sister who used her ticket to come back the same day with her grandchildren. It can close a little early (as the museum did when we visited) or run extra trains (as it did when we visited) depending on availability of volunteers. There is also the Moonta Mines Sweet Shop with old-fashioned and more current sweets but there is always quite a queue not helped by COVID restrictions. My husband finished the museum early and queued for us for over 15 minutes to get our goodies. We were operating on a time limit and weren’t organised enough to take a ride on the train. I think it takes you through similar areas to the also not-taken Ryan’s Walk and Hancock’s Walk. As the museum is open 11:00 am to 4:00 pm school holidays (after Dec 26th) and 1 pm to 4:00pm otherwise I would visit the outside walks in the morning, schedule a train ride (only Wednesdays, Saturday & Sunday unless public / school holidays where more are scheduled (check website for times when planning and be aware that very hot and very wet weather can cause closures)). All-in-all it is a place I will revisit to take the train, the other walks and re-explore the museum again.
4. Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 51 reviews
Reviewed By SusanC4948 - Melbourne, Australia
The SA National Trust runs the Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum. The museum is bigger than it looks from the outside. The main museum building is supplemented with additional buildings holing the nautical and train displays. Their volunteers are very friendly and helpful. At $6 (or free for National Trust members) it is good value. The shop had some interesting books including one on the jetties that abound on the Yorke Peninsula. The museum abounds in local community history and enriched by personal collections and so provides an eclectic mix with the sad story of a poor immigrant who slew a magistrate, a mother who kept the tea set of her young daughter who died, sea shell constructions and a preserved squid intermixed with old telephone equipment, nautical and war displays. It is a bit overcrowded or jam packed (depending on your perspective) so one visit will probably just scratch the surface.
5. Wallaroo Heritage Trail 37
6. Moonta Bay Jetty
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 27 reviews
Reviewed By Terrymoonta2016 - Moonta, Australia
We are lucky to have this old wooden pier Authentic and historical Fancy a spot of fishing or safe swimming in the ocean
7. Edithburgh Tidal Pool
8. Watsacowie Brewing Company
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By bigdogtim - Gawler, Australia
Must visit destination on Yorke. Awesome beers and BBQ food truck was delicious. Live music created nice atmosphere. Staff were fantastic and brewery dog played fetch with young kids. Grab a tasting paddle and some takeaways for later 5/5
9. Port Wakefield Wharf
10. Butlers Beach
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2 reviews
