Discover Basket Range: Garden Heritage, Orchards and Wine Tastings

Basket Range brings together a range of themes for planning your trip: Burdett's Wildflower Garden, traces of orcharding and market gardening, seated tastings at BK Wines, and the Uraidla Loop via Deep Creek Bridge. These themes range from garden heritage to a walking route where access to the bridge requires permission. If you are looking for holiday accommodation, you can first consider whether history, wine tasting or walking will shape your stay most.

Garden Heritage and Agricultural History

Burdett's Wildflower Garden in Basket Range dates from the 1920s to 1930s and is among the state's heritage-listed places. It was listed because of the significance of the garden or designed landscape. The reason for its heritage protection thus brings the landscape's design into focus as a distinct aspect of the area's history.

Surrey Orchards on Lobethal Road in Basket Range is associated with orcharding and market gardening dating to 1883. Together, the two places offer different historical reference points: Burdett's Wildflower Garden dates from the 1920s to 1930s, while Surrey Orchards represents the year 1883. This lets you consider garden heritage and the history of orcharding and market gardening as distinct interests within the area's history.

Seated Tastings at BK Wines

The BK Wines tasting room in Basket Range offers intimate seated tastings with the winemakers. The seated format and tastings with the winemakers give this experience a distinctive character. If you want to include it in your travel plans, check booking and operating details in advance, as they may change.

Walking at Deep Creek

Basket Range is connected to the Uraidla Loop via Deep Creek Bridge. The route includes a restored bridge over Deep Creek. Walkers may access the private property leading to the bridge with the owners' permission. This condition applies to access across the private property; check the access requirements again locally before your walk.

Four Routes from Adelaide

From Adelaide, you can reach Basket Range via four routes: along Greenhill Road through Uraidla, Old Norton Summit Road, New Norton Summit Road past Morialta Falls, or the South Eastern Freeway through Crafers and the Piccadilly Valley. This gives you several named roads and landmarks to choose from for your journey. Check road conditions and access before you travel. The access requirement for the bridge on the Uraidla Loop should be planned for separately.

Use Experiences to Guide Your Holiday Accommodation Search

You can start your holiday accommodation search by deciding what you want to focus on. If you are most interested in garden and agricultural history, Burdett's Wildflower Garden and Surrey Orchards offer two distinct historical points of interest. If you want to plan a tasting, check its booking and operating details; if you want to include the walk, arrange permission to cross the private property at the bridge. This way, you can tailor your search to the experiences you want to shape your stay.

Discover More Destinations

Discover more destinations: Lower Hermitage, Woodside, Uraidla, Stirling, Ashton, Oakbank, Birdwood, Forreston.

For the broader travel overview: Adelaide Hills Council.