Cleland Cottage (formerly Mount Lofty Cottage YHA)

https://www.parks.sa.gov.au/parks/cleland-national-park

Cottage sleeps up to ten people in three bedrooms (two queens and three sets of bunks). The cottage is self-contained with crockery, cutlery, cooking utensils, pots & pans supplied. Bring your own sheets, pillows, blankets and towels.
There are 2 water tanks but they behind a padlocked gate and are not accessible to the public.

Update July 2025 – Parks SA has advised the property is secured with a combination padlock. The combination is sent by email through the Parks on-line booking system. The previous arrangement of collecting a key from Belair is no longer applicable.

Originally built as a two-roomed hut, probably to accommodation shepherds working for Arthur Hardy or Sir Samuel Davenport. Hardy and Davenport were two of the first large estate landowners on this side of Mount Lofty Summit. They used the land chiefly for pastoralism and logging but also some agriculture, including the growing of vines and olives. Hardy was the first ‘colonial gentleman’ to build a summer house on Mount Lofty – nearby Mount Lofty House in the 1850s.