Nukan Kungun Hike - Salt Creek to 42 Mile Crossing

Length: 25km
Duration: 2 days
Grade: 1
Style: Return
Start: 42 Mile Crossing, Coorong
End: 42 Mile Crossing, Coorong

Location: Coorong National Park
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Distance from CBD: 230 km
State: SA
Latitude: -36.28758581
Longitude: 139.7102507

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Nukan Kungun Hike - Salt Creek to 42 Mile Crossing is a 25km, grade 1 return hike, located in Coorong National Park, South Australia. The hike should take approximately 2 days to complete.

Hike Summary

Nukan Kungun Hike is a 25km trail through the Coorong National Park. Starting from Salt Creek it links some of the more popular trails in the park, concluding at the 42 Mile Crossing campground.

From the campground you may continue over the sand dunes to the ocean beach, a further 1.3km.

Secluded bush campsites are dotted along the trail.

Nakun Kungun, pronounced 'Nackan Koon-nun', is Ngarrindjeri for 'Looking and Listening'. The trail passes through several different plant communities including mallee woodlands, tall tea-tree shrublands and spinifex grasslands. It also passes numerous ephemeral sale lakes. Encounters with wildlife, particularly kangaroos, wombats and emus are common. If you are lucky you may even see an endangered malleefowl.

Suggested walk is to start at Salt Creek and walk one day (25km) south to camp at 42 Mile Crossing. After setting up camp, walk over the sand dunes to the coast. On the second day, return to Salt Creek. The walk could also be done one-way by using as car shuffle.

View a detailed description at the blog Notes from a Trailhead.

GPX file courtesy of Walking SA. File may not contain elevation data and may only represent half the length on return hikes.

About the region

The Coorong National Park is a protected area located in South Australia about 156 kilometres southeast of Adelaide and that predominantly covers a lagoon ecosystem officially known as the Coorong and the Younghusband Peninsula on the Coorong's southern side.