Farm Stay
Alpana Station accommodation
The hut is pine and pug, built in 2002 to an 1880s pattern from local pine and stone, seven kilometres from the homestead and reachable only by 4WD. Twelve volts of solar, a pit toilet, a camp shower, and Blinman Pools a four-hour return walk away. Back at the creek the shearers' quarters sleep fourteen around an open fire, on a generator that won't take a hairdryer.
Heritage Hotel
Arkaba Homestead
An 1850s pastoral homestead sits at the centre of a 63,000-acre private wildlife conservancy between Wilpena Pound and the Elder Range, its stone walls and deep verandahs restored rather than remade. Four rooms occupy the original building, each opening onto a shaded verandah with range views; a fifth sits apart in the old Coachman's Cottage, favoured by couples. Wild Bush Luxury took on the run-down station in 2009 and kept its layout and character largely intact, adding ensuites and comfort without erasing the marks of a working sheep station. Only ten guests stay at a time, meals and drinks included, evenings built around a long table, shared stories and the property's field guides rather than a formal dining room. By day, guides lead treks and drives across a landscape under active rewilding — feral goats and foxes removed, native species reintroduced — so the conservation work is as much the story here as the restoration. It reads less like a hotel than a homestead that happens to take guests.
Cottage
Catninga
Catninga is a working cattle and horse station in the Flinders Ranges, run by lifetime locals Heather and Brian below Mt Brown. The 1800s homestead — once a merino run, and a set for the 1952 film The Kangaroo — anchors a spread of stays: a carriage B&B, a vintage tiny house, a mountain hut, a shearing-shed campout and bush and powered sites. You base yourself here to walk, ride, mountain-bike or 4WD the ranges, dogs included. The owners run it as much for land regeneration as for guests.