Friends of the Heysen Trail walk calendar
The Friends of the Heysen Trail organise regular walks along the Heysen Trail for our members. Explore our upcoming walk events and find out how you can join in.
We run a year-round calendar of walk events
The Friends of the Heysen Trail lead walks along the Trail as well as in national parks and reserves elsewhere in South Australia and occasionally interstate.
All walks in the Friends of the Heysen Trail Walk Calendar are created, organised and run by the Friends, making it easy for hikers to get the most out of their Heysen Trail experience.
Here’s a quick guide to the different walks in the calendar:
End-to-End walks
The Friends’ End-to-End walks program covers the full length of the Trail and takes approximately sixty days, spread over five or six years.
Trail Walker
Walks generally take between five and six hours and you’ll need to be physically fit. These walks are usually scheduled on Saturdays or Sundays.
Trail Starter
Haven’t walked in a group before or want to enjoy a shorter walk? These three to four hour walks are usually scheduled on Saturdays or Sundays.
Trail Rambler
Occasionally we offer Trail Rambler walks for specialist events such as bird watching or historical walks. They are relatively short and informative and are suitable for people of all fitness levels.
Summer Walks
We offer shorter walks during the hotter summer months when much of the Trail is closed. These generally take 1.5 to two hours and are mostly held on Wednesday evenings, meeting at 6 pm, followed by a meal, close to Adelaide.
Extended Walks
These are multi-day walks, usually over a long weekend or a full week. The location and walk difficulty varies, with some walks being a few hours’ drive from Adelaide, others taking place interstate or overseas.
Events
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Calendar of Events
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1 event,
Best of the Yorke
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1 event, |
1 event, |
2 events,
Black Hill with 5 Peaks
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3 events,
Myponga to Mt Compass
Kuitpo
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0 events,
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1 event,
Onkaparinga 3 River Crossings
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0 events,
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0 events,
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3 events,
Willunga Basin Trail
Monarto-Bondleigh Rd
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
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2 events,
Cobbler Creek
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1 event,
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
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2 events,
Webb Gap – Burra Rd – Worlds End
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3 events,
Mt Misery Pt1
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0 events,
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3 events,
Wirrabara Forest – White Park Rd – Murray Town
EE15 Walk 1: Cape Jervis – Cobbler Hill
CANCELLED: Para Wirra
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5 events,
Bondleigh Rd -Mt Torrens Rd
The Nugget Rd – Mt Crawford
Mt Misery Pt2
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4 events,
Wandallah – Newikie Ck – Dares Hill Summit Rd
Mylor/Aldgate Circuit
Willunga Basin Trail
Walk the Yorke – Moonta Bay to Tiparra Springs to Balgowan
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3 events,
Montacute CP
Mt Compass – Kyeema
Sea to Summit
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2 events,
Kyeema – Dashwood Gully
Onkaparinga
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Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Trail Walker
Black Hill with 5 Peaks
This walk is ideal for walkers in need of a bit of a challenge and to develop techniques for rough…
Lead by Michael Joyce
Extended Walk
Best of the Yorke
Walk the Yorke follows the coast from Pt Wakefield to the Copper towns of Yorke Peninsula. It explores some of…
Lead by Simon Cameron
Myponga to Mt Compass
After a short road walk, the trail enters the small but picturesque Yulte Conservation Park after a steady climb you…
Trail Starter
Kuitpo
The walk commences from the oldest timber plantation in the Mount Lofty Ranges, planted in 1898. Combining sections of the…
Lead by Judith Ellis
Trail Walker
Onkaparinga 3 River Crossings
Onkaparinga 3 River Crossings A scenic exploration of Onkaparinga National Park on some lesser known trails and criss-crossing the river…
Lead by Melanie Sjoberg, Daniel Jardine
Willunga Basin Trail
The Willunga Basin Trail winds its way around and across the Willunga Basin for 130km: taking walkers through a diverse landscape of…
Lead by Melanie Sjoberg, Daniel Jardine
Monarto-Bondleigh Rd
To avoid Mother’s Day we are walking on the Saturday. This section of the trail traverses woodland, passes ruins and…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Trail Starter
Cobbler Creek
A pleasant walk on several trails in Cobbler Creek.
Lead by Kevin Liddiard
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Webb Gap – Burra Rd – Worlds End
Weekend based in Burra SAT 15th The trail continues along the Tothill Range providing expansive views over the surrounding farmland…
Parachilna Gorge to Mount Little Station Week 1
And so the second reverse traverse of the Heysen Trail begins with 6 days walking based at Willow Springs. All…
Webb Gap – Burra Rd – Worlds End
Weekend based in Burra SAT 15th The trail continues along the Tothill Range providing expansive views over the surrounding farmland…
Trail Walker
Mt Misery Pt1
This extremely hard walk incorporates sections of the Montacute Conservation Park and the valleys and ridges south of the Kangaroo…
Lead by Peter Clark
Wirrabara Forest – White Park Rd – Murray Town
Our journey north through the Flinders Ranges recommences with a difficult walk on Saturday and a comfortable walk on Sunday.…
End-to-End 15
EE15 Walk 1: Cape Jervis – Cobbler Hill
Welcome to Walk 1 for the new End to End 15 group. This first E2E Walk starts from the Cape…
Trail Walker
CANCELLED: Para Wirra
Walk through Para Wirra Recreation Park and Barossa Goldfields to see the views from the ridges and the Devil’s nose,…
Lead by Julie Testi
Wirrabara Forest – White Park Rd – Murray Town
Our journey north through the Flinders Ranges recommences with a difficult walk on Saturday and a comfortable walk on Sunday.…
Bondleigh Rd -Mt Torrens Rd
This section of the Lavender Trail includes some steep rocky sections with a slow ascent culminating in a particularly steep…
The Nugget Rd – Mt Crawford
This section combines several sections of Mt Crawford pine forest with the natural bush land of Warren Conservation Park and…
Trail Walker
Mt Misery Pt2
This extremely hard walk incorporates sections of the Montacute Conservation Park and the valleys and ridges south of the Kangaroo…
Lead by Peter Clark
Trail Starter
Onkaparinga River Recreation Park
A “figure 8” loop walk covering most of the Pingle farm, Noarlunga Downs Wetland and Wetlands Loop Trails. A very…
Lead by Michael Middleton
Wandallah – Newikie Ck – Dares Hill Summit Rd
SAT- This remote and very undulating section gives walkers their first introduction to the grazing land beyond Goyders line with…
Trail Starter
Mylor/Aldgate Circuit
Come along and walk some little known tracks around Aldgate Creek using the Bandicoot Trail and linking back roads to…
Lead by Rosemary Hayward
Willunga Basin Trail
The Willunga Basin Trail winds its way around and across the Willunga Basin for 130km: taking walkers through a diverse landscape of…
Lead by Melanie Sjoberg, Daniel Jardine
Walk the Yorke End-to-End
Walk the Yorke – Moonta Bay to Tiparra Springs to Balgowan
This is the start of a series of walks – to walk the whole of the ‘Walk the Yorke’ over…
Wandallah – Newikie Ck – Dares Hill Summit Rd
SAT- This remote and very undulating section gives walkers their first introduction to the grazing land beyond Goyders line with…
Walk the Yorke End-to-End
Walk the Yorke – Moonta Bay to Tiparra Springs to Balgowan
This is the start of a series of walks – to walk the whole of the ‘Walk the Yorke’ over…
Trail Starter
Pony Ridge To Belair
Meeting at the historic Manure Pits on Brownhill Creek Road, we will follow the road to where it meets the…
Lead by Heather Thompson
Trail Walker
Montacute CP
This circular walk through the rugged hills of Montacute Conservation Park is challenging, but rewarding with excellent views.
Lead by Peter Deacon
Mt Compass – Kyeema
The pretty dairy pastures of Mt Compass and Nangkita provide the backdrop for the first section of this walk. Back…
Trail Walker
Sea to Summit
REGISTRATIONS OPEN 9th of May 21 This iconic Adelaide walk winds its way from the coast through urban landscapes, a…
Lead by Paul Frost
Kyeema – Dashwood Gully
The dense native bushland of Kyeema Conservation Park, the plantations of Kuitpo Forest and pretty back roads make this a…
Trail Starter
Onkaparinga
A Trail Starter in length, but with uneven, rocky, slippery and undulating tracks. A circular walk in a small area…
Lead by Judith Ellis
Want to host an event on the Trail?
For any organisations planning to run an event on the Trail, you’ll need to obtain approvals from the land owners affected or from the Department for Environment and Water.