Trip Guides
Ready-made day trips and weekend itineraries through Adelaide Hills. Follow one of these stop-by-stop, or save it to your own itinerary and adapt it.
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A Hahndorf food and drink day
Australia's oldest German town, eaten and drunk from morning coffee to sunset wine.
Bratwurst and bakeries, a hilltop winery and a riverside cellar door — a deliciously indulgent day along and around Hahndorf Main Street.
Best for: Food lovers and first-timers
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Cider, Beer & Gin Trail
The Hills was orchard country before it was vine country — and it shows. Chase dry apple cider, native-botanical gin and fresh-poured ale through the central Hills, with a designated driver and an empty boot.
Best for: Cider and craft-beer drinkers
Family & Wildlife Day
Hand-feed kangaroos, climb a giant rocking horse, meet bilbies at dusk and burn off the rest at a waterfall playground. The Hills is one big natural playground.
Best for: Families with young children
The wine and cider loop
Chase the altitude through Balhannah, Woodside and Lenswood — crisp whites, savoury pinot and proper dry cider, with cheese and pizza to keep you upright.
Best for: Wine lovers and slow Sundays
Gardens and autumn colour drive
Botanic gardens, a 1930s estate, village main streets and a ridge-top lunch — the Adelaide Hills at their most photogenic, best in April and May.
Best for: Garden lovers and autumn photographers
Northern Hills orchards & forest
Climb to the high ridge of Lenswood and Forest Range for apples, cherries, elegant wines and the deep green of Mount Crawford Forest.
Best for: Orchards, cool-climate wine and forest air
Stirling & Aldgate Village Stroll
No car keys, no rush. Wander the deli, bookshop and antique stores of Stirling and Aldgate, with garden stops and a pub lunch to round it out.
Best for: Slow mornings and browsers
The biodynamic & organic Hills
Taste your way through the Adelaide Hills' growing community of organic, biodynamic and natural-leaning producers.
Best for: Natural wine, organic produce and ethical food
The southern Hills village loop
Trade the tourist trail for the dairy country and gold-rush villages of the southern Adelaide Hills plateau.
Best for: History, country pubs and quiet back roads
The Torrens Gorge scenic drive
Follow the winding Gorge Road from the city edge up into the northern Hills, linking river lookouts, a wildlife park and forest reserves.
Best for: Scenic drives, wildlife and bushland lookouts
Torrens Valley Heritage Drive
Trace the Torrens River through the quietest, prettiest corner of the Hills — old stone main streets, vintage cars, a giant rocking horse and chocolate straight from the factory.
Best for: History buffs and curious wanderers