Delve into Crafers West
The district Crafers West of in Adelaide Hills (South Australia) is a subburb in Australia about 590 mi west of Canberra, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Mitcham, Adelaide, Honiton, Koomooloo and Loxton. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 24°C / 75 °F
Morning Temperature | 14°C / 57 °F |
Evening Temperature | 21°C / 71 °F |
Night Temperature | 14°C / 58 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 50% |
Air Pressure | 1011 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from North-West |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 75% of sky |
General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
31°C (88 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
17°C (63 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
22°C (71 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Mount Lofty House - MGallery by Sofitel
Thorngrove Manor Hotel
Pullman Adelaide
Clarion Hotel Soho
Windsor Apartments
MANTRA HINDMARSH SQUARE
MANTRA ON FROME
RNR APARTMENTS ADELAIDE
Quest King William South
Adina Adelaide Treasury
Videos from this area
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Rachel Jackson at Cleland Wildlife Park, South Australia
Rachel Jackson at Cleland Wildlife Park, South Australia.
Power by Ford: '79 XD Falcon Stage 2 Street Engine Start & Rev
High Definition Exhaust Video. Tuning is not quite perfect as yet, still a little rich, hence the smoke when I open the fuel tap. I'm still playing with camera distance to get the sound just...
Very light snow falling on Mt Lofty summit 23rd Aug 2012
Very light snow fell on the summit of Mount Lofty South Australia over about a ten minute period around 300pm Thursday 23rd August 2012. It was preceded by small hail and rain and preceded...
Channel 9 - Today Show - Cleland Wildlife Park - 6th May, 2013
Channel 9's Today Show crossed live to Cleland Wildlife Park for weather presentations and featured some of the animals from the park.
Koalas at Cleland Wildlife Park
Koala footage shot at Cleland Wildlife Park. View more great South Australian Parks & Reserves at http://www.parks.sa.gov.au.
Rachel, Caitlin and Rachel at Cleland Wildlife Park, South Australia
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Lofty Descents by Escapegoat- the short version!
Just a short video from our popular Mt Lofty Descents tour- Mountain bike from the summit of Mt Lofty in the Adelaide hills all the way back to Adelaide. The riding is mostly off-road, and...
Trains in Timelapes - Mt Lofty Railway Station - Australian Trains
Saturday morning movements through Mt Lofty Railway Station on the 28th April 2012. Mount Lofty railway station is a railway station in South Australia, on the former Adelaide-Bridgewater...
Night Grain Train at Mt Lofty - Australian Trains, South Australia
CLP14, GM42, 703 & GWA005 with a loaded grian train bound for Pelican Point. Mount Lofty railway station is a railway station in South Australia, on the former Adelaide-Bridgewater railway...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Belair National Park
Belair National Park (formerly known as Belair Recreation Park) is a national park in South Australia, 13 km south of Adelaide, covering an 835ha area. It was proclaimed in 1891 and was the first National Park in South Australia, second in Australia (after Sydney's Royal National Park which was proclaimed in 1879) and the tenth in the world.
Brown Hill Creek
Brown Hill Creek, in South Australia, {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:34|59|S|138|39|E|region:AU-SA|| | |name= }}, is one of several creeks running in a generally west-north-west direction, draining the western watershed of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The creek runs through the suburb of Brown Hill Creek with the area around the mouth of creek in the suburb of Mitcham. This area was known to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains as Wirraparinga, meaning "creek and scrub place".
Crafers, South Australia
The town of Crafers is in the Adelaide Hills to the south-east of Adelaide, South Australia. Although technically considered to be an outer suburb of Adelaide, with many residents commuting to the city to work, locals consider Crafers to be more a suburb of the nearby township of Stirling.
NWS (TV station)
NWS is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation which is based in Adelaide, Australia. The station's name, NWS is an acronym of The NeWs South Australia.
Waterfall Gully, South Australia
Waterfall Gully is an eastern suburb of the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges around 5 km east-south-east of the Adelaide city centre. For the most part, the suburb encompasses one long gully with First Creek at its centre and Waterfall Gully Road running adjacent to the creek. At the southern end of the gully is First Falls, the waterfall for which the suburb was named.
Mount Lofty
Mount Lofty is the highest point in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges. It is located about 15 km east of the centre of the city of Adelaide in South Australia and gives unrivalled panoramic views of the city and the Adelaide plains and foothills. It was first climbed by a European when explorer Collet Barker climbed it in April 1831, almost seven years before Adelaide was settled. It was named by Matthew Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia in 1802.
ADS (TV station)
ADS Adelaide is an Australian television station, owned by, and affiliated with Network Ten.
Upper Sturt, South Australia
Upper Sturt is a suburb in the inner south of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is nestled in the lower reaches of the Mount Lofty Ranges with the Western Half located in the City of Mitcham local government area, and the eastern portion located in the Adelaide Hills Council Local Government Area. Upper Sturt Primary School was founded in 1878, and has approximately 40 students. Upper Sturt Post Office opened on 1 March 1880.
SAS (TV station)
SAS is a television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Australian Seven Network. SAS-7 was originally known as SAS-10, commencing broadcasting on 26 July 1965. On 27 December 1987, SAS-10 and ADS-7 switched broadcast channels, ADS moving to channel 10, SAS moving to channel 7.
Chambers Gully
Chambers Gully is an offshoot of Waterfall Gully in the Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It used to be a local landfill but in the past decade has been reclaimed as a park by volunteer work. It contains a number of old ruins, walking trails, springs and is an excellent place to spot local wildlife such as koalas.
Leawood Gardens, South Australia
Leawood Gardens is a small suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in both the City of Mitcham and the City of Burnside located in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills.
Greenhill Road, Adelaide
Greenhill Road is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia, that provides a vital transport artery for those living in the eastern and hills suburbs. In Adelaide's early days, trams used to run up and down the road. A resident of Burnside can usually expect to take 15 minutes to reach the CBD in peak times, and around ten minutes in others. Greenhill Road starts in Balhannah in the Adelaide Hills and winds through Carey Gully, Uraidla, Summertown and Greenhill as a two-lane road.
Mount Bonython
Mount Bonython is one of two major peaks in the Adelaide hills visible from Adelaide. The other, about a kilometre to the south and some 20 m higher, is Mount Lofty. There is a telecommunications tower used for the Telstra NextG network located at its summit. According to the mythology of the indigenous Kaurna people, the Mount Lofty Ranges were part of the story of the ancestor-creator Nganno.
Eagle On The Hill, South Australia
Eagle On The Hill is an unbounded locality of Adelaide in the Adelaide Foothills. It borders Mount Osmond and Waterfall Gully. The village is located on Mount Barker Road, which was formerly the only connection from Adelaide to the South Eastern Freeway. Once the Adelaide-Crafers Highway through the Heysen Tunnels was opened in 2000, Eagle on the Hill went into a precipitous decline.
Mount Lofty Botanic Garden
First opened in 1977, the crescent-shaped Mount Lofty Botanic Garden is situated on 97 hectares on the eastern slopes of Mount Lofty in the Adelaide Hills east of Adelaide in South Australia. The cooler, wetter location suits plants from temperate climates which are difficult to grow on the Adelaide Plains. Amongst the native Australian flora there are tree ferns, as well as exotic cultivated plants from cool climates including Rhododendron and Magnolia and the National Species Rose Collection.
Mount Lofty Fire Tower
The Mount Lofty Fire Tower sits on top of Mount Lofty in the Adelaide Hills just to the east of the city of Adelaide, South Australia. The 34m high tower has a commanding view over a huge area of the rural areas surrounding Adelaide, and on a clear day the view can extend to as far as Kangaroo Island to the southwest, Monarto to the east, the Fleurieu Peninsula to the south, and the grassy plains beyond Two Wells to the north.
Brown Hill Creek, South Australia
Brown Hill Creek is a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham in South Australia, named after the eponymous Brown Hill Creek. In the creek valley behind Brown Hill has contained some form of park for many years; a stone plaque declaring a "pleasure resort" from the early part of the 20th century still stands at the entrance to the valley.
Mount Lofty railway station
Mount Lofty Railway Station is a railway station in South Australia, on the former Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line, located in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Stirling. The station opened in 1883 and it is located 31.0 km (19m41c) by rail from the Adelaide Railway Station. It is the highest railway station between Adelaide and Melbourne. Two platforms were provided. The north or 'Down' platform is 125.0 metres long and the south or 'Up' platform is 103.6 metres long.
ABS (TV station)
ABS is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It began broadcasting on 11 March 1960 from studios in the suburb of Collinswood. The station's transmitter is located at Mount Lofty, and is one of a series of relay transmitters located throughout the state.
Heysen Tunnels
The Heysen Tunnels are twin tube road tunnels which carry the Adelaide-Crafers Highway under Eagle On The Hill in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. The tunnels were excavated using a tunnelling machine normally used in heavy-duty mining operations which tunnelled through 500 metres of rock for each tunnel at an average rate of 3 metres per day. The tunnels were completed in 1998 and officially opened in May 2000. Each tunnel carries 3 lanes of traffic.
5MMM
5MMM (identified on air and in print as Triple M Adelaide) is a radio station broadcasting in Adelaide, Australia. Its target demographic is the 30 - 54 age group. Triple M Adelaide is part of the Austereo Triple M Network and broadcasts on the 104.7 MHz frequency.
Upper Sturt railway station
Upper Sturt railway station was on the now closed Bridgewater line located 28.9 km (18m 17ch) by rail from Adelaide, South Australia. Facilities consisted of an 80.5-metre-long platform and a shelter. The station was located in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Upper Sturt between the end of Station Road, a dead end street branching off Upper Sturt Road, and the end of Isling Road, a dead-end street branching off Sheoak Road (which is now in Crafers West).
Nalawort railway station
Nalawort railway station was located on the now closed Bridgewater line approximately 28.4 km by rail from Adelaide, South Australia. The station was located near Railway Terrace (off Princes Avenue) in what is now the suburb of Crafers West. Facilities provided are not known. Nalawort was opened in the 1920s as a stopping place for rail motors, suggesting it was opened when the Brill Model 75 class Railcars (known as Barwell Bulls) entered service. The station was closed in the late 1950s.
Long Gully railway station
Long Gully railway station is located in Belair National Park, South Australia. It is about 26.7km by railway from Adelaide Railway Station. The original plan was for the siding to be named "Minnow".
National Park railway station
National Park railway station was a railway station on the now closed Bridgewater line located in Belair National Park, South Australia, about 25.4km by railway from Adelaide Railway Station. Facilities consisted of a 80m platform and shelter shed. The station was popular with bike riders on weekends. The station was closed in 1987 when services on the Bridgewater line ceased. The platform and shelter shed have since been demolished.