Chadinga Conservation Park

Open dai­ly.

Vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion, book­ings and park management:

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna office
Phone: (+61 8) 8625 3144
Email: EPParks@​sa.​gov.​au

Emer­gency contacts:

Med­ical, fire (includ­ing bush­fire) and police emer­gency sit­u­a­tions
Phone: Triple Zero — 000

Police Assis­tance
Phone: 131 444 for non-urgent police assistance

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA – After-hours duty offi­cer
Phone: (08) 8688 3223

Injured wildlife:

With­in the park
Please con­tact Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna officeon (08) 8625 3144 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on (08) 8688 3223

Out­side of the park
Please con­tact a local wildlife res­cue group

Marine mam­mals
If you find a sick or strand­ed marine mam­mal (includ­ing whales, seals, sea lions and dol­phins), please con­tact Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna office on (08) 8625 3144 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on (08) 8688 3223

Dogs are not per­mit­ted in this park.

Dis­cov­er which parks you can walk your dog in on our find a park tool or read 12 dog-friend­ly walks in Ade­laide Parks by Good Liv­ing for inspiration.

Assis­tance dogs are per­mit­ted in most pub­lic places and are there­fore wel­come in South Australia’s parks and reserves. Assis­tance dogs must be appro­pri­ate­ly restrained on a lead and remain under your effec­tive con­trol at all times while in a park or reserve.

As per the dogs in parks and reserves pol­i­cy, if the dog is not an accred­it­ed assis­tance dog, they must be trained to assist a per­son with a dis­abil­i­ty to alle­vi­ate that dis­abil­i­ty and meet stan­dards of hygiene and behav­iour appro­pri­ate for a dog in a pub­lic place. How­ev­er, refusal may be giv­en if the per­son with the dis­abil­i­ty is unable to pro­duce evi­dence the dog is an assis­tance dog with the appro­pri­ate training.

Before tak­ing your assis­tance dog into a park that does not nor­mal­ly allow dogs, it is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed that you con­tact us so we can pro­vide you with the lat­est infor­ma­tion on any poten­tial haz­ards with­in spe­cif­ic parks that may affect your dog. Please con­tact the park via the con­tact details pro­vid­ed under the con­tact tab or con­tact the vis­i­tor ser­vice cen­tre via email or on Face­book.

The Park has no facil­i­ties, but bush camp­ing is per­mit­ted. Campers need to bring their own sup­plies and equip­ment. We rec­om­mend that a min­i­mum of 10 litres (per per­son) of fresh drink­ing water should be car­ried dur­ing the sum­mer months.

Penong is the near­est town and pro­vides fuel, food and oth­er conveniences.

Camp­fires are per­mit­ted out­side of the fire dan­ger sea­son. Ensure you are famil­iar with the fire restric­tions for this park.

• There is lim­it­ed mobile phone range through­out the park, phone range can be sought from high­er ground in the park.

• Camp­ing safety
• Parks man­age­ment plans
• Trails SA
• SA Marine Parks

• Impor­tant: Col­lec­tion of fire­wood with­in Nation­al Parks is pro­hib­it­ed. Dead wood plays a vital role in pro­vid­ing shel­ter for ani­mals and adding nutri­ents to the soil.

The Park pro­vides an impor­tant habi­tat for spinifex hop­ping-mice, echid­nas and numer­ous bird species. 

Flo­ra and fau­na species lists

To down­load flo­ra (plants) and fau­na (ani­mals) species lists for this park, use the ​‘Cre­ate Sim­ple Species List’ tab under ​‘Flo­ra Tools’ or ​‘Fau­na Tools’ in NatureMaps.

The Yum­bar­ra Con­ser­va­tion Park Co-man­age­ment Board and Wan­na Mun­da Parks Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee would like to acknowl­edge the Chadin­ga Con­ser­va­tion Park is part of the tra­di­tion­al lands of the Far West Coast peo­ple and that it respects their spir­i­tu­al rela­tion­ship with their coun­try. The Yum­bar­ra Con­ser­va­tion Park Co-man­age­ment Board and Wan­na Mun­da Parks Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, also acknowl­edges the Far West Coast peo­ple as the cus­to­di­ans of the Far West Coast region and that their cul­tur­al and her­itage beliefs are still as impor­tant to the liv­ing Far West Coast peo­ple today. 

Co-man­age­ment in South Aus­tralia is a part­ner­ship between the state gov­ern­ment and Abo­rig­i­nal groups to help man­age our nation­al parks that com­bines tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge with con­tem­po­rary park man­age­ment. The co-man­age­ment of parks plays an impor­tant role in advanc­ing the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion process and resolv­ing issues relat­ing to tra­di­tion­al land own­er­ship. The involve­ment of Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple in the man­age­ment of their tra­di­tion­al lands con­tributes to improved cul­tur­al site pro­tec­tion, main­te­nance of tra­di­tion­al prac­tices that may have oth­er­wise been exclud­ed, and improved man­age­ment of parks through the com­bi­na­tion of tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge and con­tem­po­rary sci­ence. Co-man­age­ment arrange­ments are estab­lished by agree­ment with the Abo­rig­i­nal tra­di­tion­al own­ers and are often estab­lished with the deter­mi­na­tion of native title.