The Fire Danger Season has finished in the Flinders (north of Wirrabara and the trail is open. Elsewhere the trail remains closed. Read more
The fire danger season for the Mount Lofty Ranges Fire Ban District (between Kings Beach (WSCW) and Tanunda in the Barossa Valley) has been extended by two weeks to 14 May. Read more
Registrations for the first End-to-End 4 walk opened today. Register by selecting the event on the walks calendar or directly here. Registrations will close at 2.00pm Thursday, April 23.
Commencing at the start of the Heysen Trail at Cape Jervis, this new walk group will follow the trail one day per month.
Registrations for the first End-to-End 3 walk for the year will open on Saturday, April 4.
Users registering for walks online will now be notified of the meeting location immediately after registration, it will be displayed on the following page, and also emailed to you. Please ensure the email address heysentrail@heysentrail.asn.au is on your email program’s Safe List to ensure it is not treated as spam.
Registrations for walks will open 28 days prior to the walk, and close at 2pm on the Friday prior. End-to-End walks will close earlier in the week. Refer to specific walk detail pages for event registration opening and closing dates for that event.
An article on the Heysen Trail has appeared in the recent Coast and Country magazine. The magazine is availble from leading newsagents and Borders bookstores.
The Federal Government has announced 50 new Green Corps projects, one of which is to construct/upgrade overnight accommodation on the Heysen trail, construct replica heritage (post and rail) fencing and exclusion fencing etc in Kuitpo Forest.
Green Corps is an Australian Government funded program that provides young people aged between 17 and 20 the opportunity to volunteer to conserve, preserve and restore Australia’s environment and cultural heritage.
More info:
⢠Government media release
⢠Green Corps projects (Round 53)
A REMINDER: Flinders Walking Trails – Comments required by the 27th Feb.
The Department for Environment and Heritage is seeking input on a Draft Trail Master Plan for the Flinders Ranges National Park. Included in this draft master plan is the realignment of much of the Heysen Trail that passes through the park.
The draft master plan can be viewed in the Latest News section of the DEH website.
See the previous News post below (Jan 5th 09) for more info.
Comments may be emailed to enquiries@planningforpeople.com.au, to be received by February 27th.
See new post.
From the Department for Environment and Heritage.
If you have recently visited or would like to visit Mount Remarkable National Park – we would like to encourage you to participate in this on-line trail survey (closes 30 January 2009). It should only take 7-8 minutes to complete. On completion you could be in the running to win a National Parks Pass to the value of $112, just click on the link below and follow the prompts to enter.
The Department for Environment and Heritage is seeking input on a Draft Trail Master Plan for the Flinders Ranges National Park. Included in this draft master plan is the realignment of much of the Heysen Trail that passes throught the park to separate it from the Mawson Trail, avoid maintenance roads, pass through key features of the park and create new dedicated hike-in campsites.
The proposed trail network consists of 165 kms of trails across the park. This is based on closure or downgrading of 40.6 kms of the existing trail network (predominantly walking trails) and the development of 72kms of new trail.
The draft master plan can be viewed in the Latest News section of the DEH website.
Comments may be emailed to enquiries@planningforpeople.com.au, to be received by February 27th.