Trip Guides
Ready-made day trips and weekend itineraries through Limestone Coast. Follow one of these stop-by-stop, or save it to your own itinerary and adapt it.
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A Caves & Sinkholes Day
Descend into the Limestone Coast's karst country
Spend a day exploring the caves, sinkholes and springs that riddle the limestone beneath Mount Gambier and Naracoorte.
Best for: Geology buffs and curious families
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A Coonawarra Cabernet day
A single, unhurried day along the famous cigar-shaped strip of red soil over limestone, where Cabernet Sauvignon reaches a pitch it manages almost nowhere else in Australia.
Best for: Wine lovers and Cabernet devotees
A Coonawarra Wine & Food Long Lunch
Slow down for a classic Coonawarra day: a string of cellar doors on the red strip built around a long, unhurried lunch.
Best for: Wine lovers and slow travellers
A Robe Coastal Weekend
A relaxed weekend in Robe, balancing wild ocean scenery, heritage landmarks and the town's easy seaside charm.
Best for: Couples and coastal wanderers
Mount Gambier volcanic lakes loop
Mount Gambier sits on a dormant volcanic complex, and its strangest sights - a lake that turns cobalt every summer, sunken gardens and water-filled caves - are all within a few minutes of the main street.
Best for: Families and curious geology lovers
A Penola Heritage Loop
A half-day loop through Penola's historic streets, following the footsteps of Mary MacKillop and the founders of the wine country.
Best for: History lovers and heritage walkers
Beachport Coastal Escape
A relaxed day exploring Beachport, from the Bowmans Scenic Drive to a float in the salt-heavy Pool of Siloam.
Best for: Slow-coast travellers and beach lovers
Coast and caves road trip
A three-day arc from the seaside charm of Robe to the World Heritage caves of Naracoorte, taking in wild surf parks, salt lakes and a fossil record stretching back half a million years.
Best for: Road trippers and nature lovers
Kingston to Robe Coastal Drive
Drive the northern Limestone Coast from Larry the Lobster at Kingston down to historic Robe, with coastal wine and big-sky beaches along the way.
Best for: Road-trippers and coast lovers
Penola & Wrattonbully Wine Day
Pair Penola's heritage and Mary MacKillop story with cellar doors and the up-and-coming reds of the Wrattonbully ridge.
Best for: Wine and history lovers
Volcanoes & Craters Day
Trace the volcanic story of Mount Gambier and Mount Schank, from brilliant crater lakes to a climb around a young volcano.
Best for: Geology buffs and active explorers