RV Friendlies & Events

Featured RV Friendly Events

QUEENSLAND
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Cardwell Pioneers Tour

The Cardwell Pioneer Tours are currently operating every Monday and Thursday morning from 10am at the Visitor Information and Heritage Centre located in Cardwell. The tour incorporates all the buildings in the historic precinct and takes visitors on a fascinating journey of the area’s colourful history as they move through each building. The tour begins at the old Bush Telegraph building which was the Telegraph and Post Office and explains how Cardwell was founded in 1864 as the first port in North Queensland. Over in the Courthouse visitors can gain an understanding of the old judicial system. Several interesting items are on display including the original straight-jackets used in Tully to restrain the more energetic offenders. The old lock-up building was still in use during the1980s at the Cardwell Police Station. The final building is the old Shire Hall which the community used for a multitude of purposes included balls and other formal social events. The tour concludes on the balcony of the Visitor Information Centre where visitors can enjoy a complementary Devonshire Tea while taking in one of the best views in North Queensland overlooking Hinchinbrook Island, Gould Island and the Family Islands

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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EP Field Days Cleve

Event date: 11 - 13 August 2026

The biennial Eyre Peninsula Field Days showcases agricultural innovations and services in Cleve, South Australia.

More than 400 exhibitors from across agricultural machinery, farm services and rural lifestyle sectors set up displays, demonstrations and stalls showing new technologies, tools, and innovations. Alongside that are guest speakers, workshops, food and craft stalls, and features like “Artyculture” — a sustainable fashion/fashion-upcycling catwalk competition.

Facilities include food and beverage options, first aid, baby change, courier service for heavy purchases, free bus service around the site and ample parking.

With well over 10,000 attendees, EP Field Days plays a vital role in sharing farming innovations, inspiring rural lifestyle improvements, and strengthening community across Eyre Peninsula.

QLD
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30th Brigalow Arts Festival

Date: 16/10-11/12/26

The Brigalow Arts Festival is the Banana Shire’s largest exhibition of visual arts in a professionally judged open art award. 2026 will mark the festival’s 30th anniversary. The festival program also offers artists and arts enthusiasts the opportunity to take part in networking events, practical workshops and to enhance skills in creative business development.

The exhibition component of the Brigalow Arts Festival is suitable for artists of any career stage across all artistic mediums. Categories encompass painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, digital arts, textiles, sculpture and decorative arts.

For artists, the Brigalow Arts Festival is the perfect way to build an audience, receive award recognition, sell works and exhibit in a professional gallery environment. For audiences, it is the ideal way to experience a cross-section of local arts, support artists and discover the stories that are being told in our region. 


Featured RV Friendly Towns & Destinations

QUEENSLAND
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Bunya Red Farm

Bunya Red Farm is a beautiful 160 acre property in the South Burnett region growing capers and caperberries – South Burnett’s first! Queensland grown and produced!Experience our farm life, where it is peaceful and quiet, and at a much slower pace. Take time to breathe the fresh air, wander around the farm with Allan, or listen to his yarns, enjoy the great views to the Bunya Mountains, feed and pat the alpacas or check on the cows. In the evenings, enjoy the spectacular sunsets and clear night sky.You can stay one night, a week, or longer on one of the 10 cleared sites dotted around the farm.Stays are for those travelling in self-contained vehicles only. Pets on a lead permitted. If you would like to use camp kitchen fees will apply.$7.50 per person per night fee applies for all stays. 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Wallaroo - SA RVFT

Wallaroo is located 160km north-west of Adelaide on the western side of the York Peninsula. Wallaroo is one of three Copper Triangle towns famed for their historic shared copper mining industry, and known together as 'Little Cornwall,' the other two being Kadina and Moonta. The towns first copper smelter was lit in 1861, after which the industry flourished, and the township grew rapidly. Wallaroo began shipping refined copper in 1862 and within just six years over 100 tonnes were produced weekly.Those visiting Wallaroo can find short-term parking at Wallaroo Rest Area, 11 Cornish Terrace. Parking is $6 per vehicle per night for self-contained vehicles only and is limited to 24 hours. Visitors are able to pay by purchase of a boat ramp ticket from the Wallaroo Boat Ramp ticket machine.Local events include the annual Antiques and Collectables Fair, the Kernewek Lowender, Paskeville Field Days, and the Copper Coast Marina Festival. Historic buildings include the former Tipara Lighthouse (1877), Cornucopia Hotel (1862), Town Hall (1902), Old Railway Station (1914), Caroline Carleton’s residence (c1870), Court House (1865), Customs House (1862), the Seaman’s Recreation Centre (c1880) and Hughes Chimneystack, the only above ground reminder of the chimneys and furnaces erected by the Wallaroo Mining and Smelting Company. The Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum in the old post office (1865) contains extensive historical maritime displays and local tours and guides for groups can be booked here.Tourist/Visitor Centre       Farm Shed Museum & Tourist Centre (20km), 50 Moonta Rd, Kadina SAPh: 08 8821 2333thefarmshed@coppercoast.sa.gov.auwww.coppercoast.sa.gov.auCasual Parking       Owen TerraceShort Term Parking           Wallaroo Rest Area, 11 Cornish Terrace, self-contained vehicles, (24hr) unpwr $6.00 pvpn, pay by purchase of a boat ramp ticket from the Wallaroo Boat Ramp ticket machineDump Point  Victoria St, adj BP service stationPotable Water          Heritage DrvHospital        Ernest Terrace, Ph: 08 8823 0200Doctors Surgery     Ernest Terrace, Ph: 08 8823 2644Dentist           Doswell Terrace, Kadina, Ph: 08 8821 1300Pharmacy     45 Owen Terrace, Ph: 08 8823 2524Supermarket            Foodland, 50 Hughes St, Ph: 08 8823 2990
NEW SOUTH WALES
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Ariah Park - NSW RVFT

Ariah Park is a picturesque, heritage village established at the beginning of the twentieth century. The town is famed for the original retro petrol bowsers and peppercorn trees that line the main street and is home to the iconic Ariah Park Hotel.RV travellers in the region will be able to make use of the excellent facilities at Ariah Park Campground. Parking is available for up to 7 days, with powered sites available for $20 per vehicle per night and unpowered sites available for just $12 per vehicle per night. The campground offers access to showers and toilets, and a dump point and potable water is located at the site. The bronze wheat lumper statue was built in 2016 and is a tribute to the hardworking men who lumped and stacked bags of wheat until the advent of bulk grain handling in 1916 saw the construction of large concrete railway silos begin in the region. More history of the town can be discovered on the self-guided walking tour, a must for any visitor to the area.Tourist/Visitor Information Centre        Temora Shire Visitor Information CentreCoolamon St, near the tennis courtsPh: 02 6977 5921www.temora.com.auCasual Parking (near retail centre)       Coolamon St, Ariah ParkShort & Long Term Parking        Ariah Park Campground, Barnes St$12pvpn unpowered, $20pvpn powered, 7 night max stay, showers, power, bins, BBQ, toilets, water, covered seating, pets on leadDump Point  Cnr Barnes St & Mary Gilmore Way, entry via Barnes St.Lat: -34.352968Long: 147.221125Potable Water          Ariah Park Campground, Barnes StHospital        Nearest Hospital is located at TemoraDoctors Surgery     CWA Rooms, 15 Pitt St, Ariah Park – appts via Temora Medical Centre Ph: 02 6977 3600Dentist           Nearest Dentist is located at TemoraPharmacy     71 Coolamon St, Ariah Park Ph: 02 6974 1097Supermarket            72 Coolamon St, Ph: 02 6974 1275