Heysen Highlights: Companion Guide to the Heysen Trail

Heysen Highlights: A companion guide to the Heysen Trail
by Simon Cameron

The Heysen Trail is a 1200 kilometre adventure hike which runs along the rugged spine of South Australia. From the Southern Ocean’s cliffs and beaches to the northern deserts. It is Australia’s most diverse trail, over varying terrain and filled with a multitude of stories.

The also passes through a cultural heritage spanning tens of thousands of years of occupation and nearly two centuries of colonial settlement. Even more unique is a geological landscape that spans the origin of animal life itself. All of this offers a wealth of discovery on every journey along the Heysen Trail and there is no shortage of highlights along the way.

The companion guide to the Heysen Trail is broken into 58 sections, each comfortably walked in one day. For each day there is an overview of what to expect and what to look out for.

This book is not intended as a replacement for the readily available map series of the Heysen Trail. The maps provided within the book are overviews only, hence the subtitle "Companion Guide  to the Heysen Trail".