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Distance: 91km loop
App: Download the Discover Goyder app for your personal guide
Start Point: Mount Bryan or Hallett (flexible depending on your direction)

Stick to the track, take only photos, and leave only footprints. Dare’s Circuit Hill is a drive to remember—for all the right reasons.

*Please Respect the Land: Important Visitor Notice*

This drive passes through private pastoral property. For your safety and out of respect for landowners:

  • Do not enter ruins, buildings, or fenced areas

  • Do not wander off the marked track or take side roads

  • Take photos only from the roadside

  • Leave gates as you find them and follow all signage

Thank you for helping us protect this special place for future generations.

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Dare’s Circuit Hill Drive: 91 Kilometres of Discovery

Just 91 kilometres long, the Dare’s Circuit Hill Drive may seem modest in distance—but it’s a journey packed with history, heritage, and striking contrasts in the South Australian landscape. This self-guided drive is your ticket to uncovering the stories that shaped the region—from ancient Aboriginal rock art to pioneering sheep stations and legendary explorers.

Start Your Adventure with the Discover Goyder App

Before you hit the road, download the free Discover Goyder app—your perfect companion for this tour. With GPS-guided commentary, historic photos, and insider tips, the app brings the circuit to life in the palm of your hand. Whether you’re travelling solo, as a couple, or with the whole family, the app adds another layer of insight and engagement to your journey.

Crossing Goyder’s Line: A Changing Landscape

This drive traces a fascinating environmental frontier—Goyder’s Line of Rainfall—an invisible yet impactful boundary between reliable cropping land and true outback pastoral country. Named after Surveyor General George Goyder in 1865, this line still shapes life and land use today. As you travel along the route, you’ll witness this transformation first-hand, from lush cereal-growing farmland to the hardy saltbush plains beyond.

Historic Highlights Along the Way

  • Sir Hubert Wilkins’ Birthplace – Explore the restored cottage where this world-first polar explorer and aviator was born. His global adventures began right here at Mount Bryan East.

  • Piltimitiappa Homestead Ruins – Discover the life of William Dare, a determined settler who founded a thriving sheep station after returning from the goldfields. The summit nearby is named in his honour.

  • Ketchowla Station – This once-thriving homestead site was vital to both European settlers and the Ngadjuri Walpa Juri people, whose rock engravings and paintings in the area are sacred and culturally significant.

  • Collinsville Merino Stud – Drive through one of Australia’s most renowned sheep studs, a cornerstone of the national wool industry and home to record-breaking rams.

  • General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech Site – Pause at the historic train platform in Terowie where MacArthur delivered his famous wartime promise: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return.”

When to Go

The drive is open year-round, but early spring is particularly beautiful, with wildflowers in bloom and green rolling hills stretching to the horizon. Allow plenty of time to explore—though it’s only 91km, the stories and sights will easily fill your day.

📲 Download the app before you go to make the most of every stop!