9 Best Things to Do in the Clare Valley
Beyond the cellar door - trails, heritage towns, grand mansions and a hedge maze.
Wine may be the headline, but the Clare Valley rewards the curious traveller in a dozen other ways - cycling, heritage, hedge mazes and historic towns among them. These ten experiences show off the breadth of the region.
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ClareRiesling Trail
Cycle or walk the flat, traffic-free rail trail through the heart of the valley.
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BurraBurra Monster Mine
Stand at the edge of the open-cut copper mine that built a town.
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ClareSpring Gully Conservation Park
Walk among the valley's last red stringybark forest and spring wildflowers.
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String a few of these together and you have a weekend that goes well beyond tasting notes. The Clare Valley is small enough to do a lot of it in a single trip.
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Image credits
- Landscape of vineyards, Castelnau-de-Guers cf02.jpg by Christian Ferrer , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons