Adelaide may be known as the City of Churches, but you don’t have to venture too far from the city lights to find pockets of touring gold.

Within a few hundred clicks you can be in the outback proper, with Ngarkat Conservation Park about a 300km drive to the east and Alpana Station about 500km to the north. If you have a spare few days and you need a break from civilisation, here are a few 4WD tracks ‘close’ to Adelaide. Have we missed any? Let us know in the comments section below.

Five of the best 4×4 tracks within 500km of Adelaide

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