ROCK ’N’ ROLL

The chassis-busting Ridgetop Track will scare the bejesus out of many travellers, but the views make it all worthwhile.

WORDS AND PHOTOS ANTHONY MCDONALD

SILLERS Lookout, at the terminus of the Ridgetop Track in Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, must be one of the best views in the Australian bush. It takes in 360-degress of the spectacular Flinders Ranges, a jewel of outback South Australia. Sillers can only be reached in one of Arkaroola’s open Land Cruiser tour vehicles, and it can’t be driven by the general public, but it’s a place that shouldn’t be left off the itinerary of any adventure. The Ridgetop Track was blazed in the late 1960s by Exoil Ltd, as part of more than 150km of tracks that were carved out of the rock that is Arkaroola, in the company’s thirsty quest to find uranium. It was all for nothing, as the uranium had been leached out of the hills many millennia…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2016

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