Looking for trails open after the bushfires?
5 Feb 2020: Kangaroo Island was devasted by bushfire in January 2020. Some parks and trails remain closed. View our article of 13 walking trails open post-bushfire.
- Distance
- 4.2 km return
- Duration
- 1.5 hours return
- Moderate
- Terrain
- Undulating
- Park
- Baudin Conservation Park
- Region
- Kangaroo Island
- Download maps & GPS files
- 2 map PDFs
- 2 GPS files
- Photos
- 11 photosJump to Photos section
- Travel options
- Car
About the Walking Trail
Follow the start of the original bullock track to Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, with spectacular views across Backstairs Passage to the Fleurieu Peninsula. After climbing through regenerating sheoak vegetation, the hike leads to the ruins of Harry Bates’ cottage and a stone threshing floor on Ironstone Hill. The farming heritage of the area is interpreted on signs along the hike. The trail is inside Baudin Conservation Park.
The trailhead is at a small carpark on Binneys Track (a dirt road) which follows on from Frenchmans Terrace in Penneshaw.
Photos
Ironstone Creek Cove
The ruins of Harry Bates' cottage near the end of the Ironstone Hill Hike
Walking the Ironstone Hill Hike
The Ironstone Hill Hike follows the original bullock track which went to Cape Willoughby Lighthouse
Harry Bates' grain threshing floor at the end of the Ironstone Hill Hike
Intrepretive signage along the way
Remnants of farm marchinery on the Ironstone Hill Hike
The first of two threshing floors
There are a few short shady sections along the hike
Trailhead of Ironstone Hill Hike
Trailhead sign for Ironstone Hill Hike