Fifteen of Australia’s best places to stay in the wild

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Bubbletent Australia, Capertee Valley, NSW

The pitch
Gaze retired crossed the world’s widest canyon by time past up to the stars astatine nighttime from this trio of off-grid domes connected the borderline of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.

Hit the hut
Marvel astatine the Milky Way from the comfortableness of your queen furniture successful an inflatable “bubbletent” overlooking the immense Capertee Valley, nether 3 hours’ thrust from Sydney. Each named aft a prima sign, 3 transparent domes sitting connected a 400-hectare moving workplace connection ensuites, outdoor wood-fired blistery tubs, outdoor gas-powered campy kitchens and a scope each for peering heavy into the nighttime sky.

Virgo besides has ducted air-con to instrumentality the borderline disconnected summertime nights. Spend a quiescent time relaxing successful the hammock with your book, oregon instrumentality a thrust to the wineries of adjacent Mudgee. Savour a luxuriously agelong soak successful your tub arsenic the prima goes down, past whip up an alfresco meal. Simply bring food, drinking h2o and your favourite person.

Don’t miss
Spend a quiescent time relaxing successful the hammock with your book, oregon instrumentality a thrust to the wineries of adjacent Mudgee.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It is champion accessed by car and costs $1430 for 2 nights, duplicate share. See bubbletentaustralia.com

Larnook, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria

The pitch
A solo oregon couple’s retreat successful an off-grid hideaway with luxury and day-trip options galore.

Hit the hut
Take a nature-based interruption connected a immense angiosperm workplace lone an hr from Melbourne astatine Larnook, the sanction taken from the Boon Wurrung connection for habitat. It comprises 2 adjoining modified off-grid shipping containers, decorated with decorator flair. Larnook offers a agelong database of luxe additions – indoor gas-log fireplace, Nespresso java machine, Bose Bluetooth speakers, top-shelf bath products, positive a vessel of complimentary section vino and chocolate. And that’s connected apical of the views from the deck.

There’s plentifulness of bushwalking to support you connected to nature, and you are besides adjacent to the Puffing Billy Railway and, for gourmet touring, the Yarra Valley.

But a enactment astatine Larnook is apt to person you ignoring the extracurricular world’s day-trip offerings successful blissful comfort.

Don’t miss
An hour-long locomotion done Sherbrooke Forest brings you to Grants Picnic Ground, known for its crimson rosellas and rainbow lorikeets, portion quaint upland villages specified arsenic Tecoma, Kallista and Olinda person their ain charms.

The essentials
Good for staying year-round. Best accessed by car. $790 for 2 nights.

See larnook.co

Hideaway Litchfield, Rakula, Northern Territory

The pitch
The Northern Territory’s lone modern wilderness compartment accommodation offers an elegant nature-based enactment for a much affordable terms tag than a high-end glamping retreat.

Hit the hut
On a backstage spot conscionable extracurricular Litchfield National Park, Hideaway’s 3 one-bedroom cabins are made from 12-metre shipping containers sliced successful fractional – producing 2 double-storey spaces (Tolmer and Wangi) and 1 single-level pavilion (Cascade), perfect for guests with little mobility. Each of the villas has a lounge area, afloat equipped kitchen, bathrooms with rainfall showers and a platform with a barbecue, cleanable for frying up the meal provisions supplied successful your fridge.

With their immense chamber windows inviting the extracurricular successful (minus the critters), the cabins, situated 70 metres apart, connection a quality immersion of their own.

Newer to the spot are a trio of cosy queen-bed huts, with cheaper rates but little privacy, arsenic they are clustered together.

Don’t miss
Just 8 kilometres from Wangi Falls, Hideaway Litchfield is ideally situated for exploring its eponymous nationalist park.

The essentials
The champion play for staying is May-October. Best accessed by car. From $420 a nighttime a cabin. See hideawaylitchfield.com

Cortes Stays, Ovens Valley, North-East Victoria

The pitch
Enjoy backstage bush views and stream entree astatine this small-house-design triumph successful the epicurean hub of Victoria’s Ovens Valley.

Hit the hut
In the mid-20th century, Italian immigrants moved into the Ovens Valley, leaving a bequest of wine-making, olive groves and baccy production. Cortes is located connected a walnut farm, wherever accommodation includes a historical baccy kiln restored and transformed into a location with a minimalist aesthetic arsenic good arsenic a modern off-grid compartment overlooking the Ovens River. The vibe is elemental and rustic, but determination are luxe touches similar Aesop bath products, linen sheets, and, of course, plunger java (or java instrumentality pods if you prefer).

Nearby you’ll find vineyards, seed groves, berry and effect farms drafting culinary tourists by bike, car and connected ft to illustration the valley’s la dolce vita. Come evening, unbend successful the backstage outdoor bath, oregon instrumentality a dip successful the alpine snow-melt flowing by your doorstep.

Don’t miss
The Great Alpine Road leads to outdoor escapade hub Bright successful 1 direction, and the produce-rich hamlets of Milawa, Stanley and Beechworth successful the other.

The essentials
This is an all-season, year-round stay. It’s champion accessed by car.

From $300 a night. See cortes-stays.com.au

Farmer’s Hut, Bathurst, NSW

The pitch
This secluded couples retreat puts a unsocial luxury rotation connected classical Australian workplace stay, with section goodies and plentifulness of wide unfastened spaces included.

Hit the hut
Wilga Station, conscionable extracurricular Bathurst successful the NSW Central Tablelands, includes the secluded hut with a extortion of writer successful cleanable harmony with the lush greenish elevation it sits atop connected a 105-hectare moving sheep station. It features a king-size bed, wood fireplace, bath and kitchenette for prepping meal with section nutrient from a complimentary hamper.

Savour a vessel of premium section vino (included successful your hamper) beside the outdoor firepit arsenic the sinking prima sets the rolling hills aglow, past snuggle up beside the indoor fireplace aft dark.

Aside from the owners, the lone different radical you’re apt to transverse paths with connected your enactment are guests of the farm’s Shearer’s Hall accommodation.

Don’t miss
Follow the winding Wilga Sheep Trail to willow-lined Wilga Creek and walk a relaxing time lazing connected its banks.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It is champion accessed by car. $900 for 2 nights. See wilgastation.com.au

Eyre Way, Sleaford, Eyre Peninsula, SA

The pitch
Take successful the earthy quality of the Eyre Peninsula portion staying lukewarm and cosy successful this duplicate acceptable of tiny abodes nestled connected a distant agelong of backstage coastal farmland.

Hit the hut
First, successful 2021, came Yambara, an architecturally designed, off-grid tiny abode connected a secluded agelong of the Eyre Peninsula betwixt Sleaford Bay and the melodramatic cliffs of the Whalers Way. Then, successful 2022, came its sibling Maldhi, located connected the aforesaid backstage farm, conscionable a 30-minute thrust from Port Lincoln. While Yambara is airy and agleam with sunset tones, Maldhi is furnished successful earthier olive hues. But some person the aforesaid layout, offering a front-row spot to the earthy quality of the Eyre Peninsula, and a backstage oasis to unbend and recharge successful ultimate comfort, with a treble ablution and well-appointed room astatine your disposal. Both cabins person a treble furniture and an further furniture successful a mezzanine abstraction perfect for kids.

Don’t miss
In the wintertime months, the sun-drenched platform is cleanable for watching whales cruise crossed Sleaford Bay.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It is champion accessed by car. From $1100, for a two-night minimum stay.

See eyreway.com

Kimo Estate Eco Huts, Gundagai, NSW

The pitch
Unplug successful benignant astatine 1 of these 3 decorator A-frame huts successful the rolling hills of state NSW, each with an alfresco tub.

Hit the hut

Get a sensation of minimalist luxury successful Kimo Estate’s architect-designed, adults-only “eco huts”, each privately positioned connected the 2833-hectare workplace conscionable extracurricular the south-eastern NSW state municipality of Gundagai. Enjoy a lie-in arsenic the prima streams successful done the ample windows of your off-grid hut, perched connected its ain elevation overlooking the Murrumbidgee River flats. Prepare a feast successful the alfresco room to bask connected your backstage deck, and airy the wood-fired heater wrong connected chilly nights. The solar-powered huts don’t travel with a fridge, but there’s an Esky to support your nutrient cold, including section nutrient for breakfast.

In summer, the blistery tub transforms into a refreshing plunge pool.

There is accommodation successful different 2 cottages and converted shearers’ quarters connected the aforesaid property.

Don’t miss
Cap disconnected the time with a leisurely soak successful the wood-fired outdoor blistery tub.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It is champion accessed by car. $600 a night.

See kimoestate.com

Sierra Escape, Mudgee, NSW

The pitch
When you privation to beryllium adjacent to quality arsenic good arsenic wineries, this drawstring of glamping stays gives you both, on with a small luxury.

Hit the hut
Rouse yourself to respect the rolling hills of the Mudgee region, north-west of Sydney, bathed successful aureate airy astatine Sierra Escape, a postulation of 5 adults-only glamping tents and 1 tiny location connected a backstage spot conscionable 20 minutes from town. With a generous 54-square-metre footprint, the 4 premium tents, each furnished with a king-size bed, springiness you each the abstraction you request to unwind successful the countryside. While the Carinya structure is much compact, this newer summation to the Sierra household features the aforesaid luxe amenities including an indoor fireplace and a standalone bathtub connected the outdoor platform – with different tub indoors. Meticulously crafted from a shipping container, Elouera, the property’s archetypal tiny house, follows suit, with adjacent larger windows drafting the oculus crossed the rippling landscape. Opt to adhd a local-produce platter, in-room massage oregon adjacent a backstage yoga class.

Don’t miss
Venture retired to sip your mode astir Mudgee’s cool-climate wineries and dine astatine its award-winning restaurants.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It’s champion accessed by car. From $1280 for 2 nights. See sierraescape.com.au

Domescapes Tasmania, Tamar Valley, Tasmania

The pitch
Glamping domes wrong a Tamar Valley vineyard with grapes increasing astir to the beforehand step, and a abbreviated stroll to the cellar door.

Hit the hut
Domescapes Tasmania’s geodesic domes are each astir the “viner” things successful life. This trio of glamping domes beryllium straight beside the vines of Swinging Gate Vineyard, and conscionable a fewer minutes’ stroll from the cellar doorway – nary designated operator needed connected this stay. The ample domes, spaced astir 70 metres apart, each diagnostic a king furniture with ensuite and shower. About 25 per cent of the dome’s aboveground is simply a transparent “sky window”, allowing for stargazing from furniture and the clasp of sun-lit Tamar Valley days. Warmth is guaranteed, with insulated walls and underfloor heating, and each dome has its ain firepit. Two of the domes besides person a clawfoot bath connected the platform successful which to possibly bask a solid of bubbles successful the bubbles. Each booking receives a vessel of Tamar Valley vino and a section food platter. The bulk of the Tamar Valley’s vineyards, arsenic good arsenic Launceston and Narawntapu National Park, are wrong a 45-minute drive. A 4th dome ample capable for families is coming aboriginal this year.

Don’t miss
Swinging Gate’s quirky, farmhouse-rustic cellar doorway ever beckons. Enjoy a tasting with Nellie, the winery’s attention-stealing Staffy, who erstwhile featured successful the publication Wine Dogs of Australia.

The essentials
October until April are the champion months to visit. Best accessed by car. $295 a night.

See domescapes.com.au

Nook On The Hill, Halls Gap, Victoria

Nook On The Hill … a tiny location that makes a large statement.

The pitch
If the word tiny-mod-Scandi-chic existed it would picture this inspired owner-built dwelling astatine the foothills of the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park.

Hit the Hut
All the materials utilized to make this luxurious self-contained compartment person been salvaged and reclaimed: the 130-year-old bricks from a section bakery, oak from an Otways shearing shed, ironbark gates – it’s modern yet steeped successful history.
Every distant tiny location has to marque abstraction and comfortableness tradeoffs, but it’s hard to spot what the Nook is missing. You’ll find polished factual benchtops, a full-sized oven and hob, cleverly concealed dishwasher and handmade crockery that marque cooking present a pleasure. And the gangly extortion and floor-to-ceiling windows not lone springiness the compartment a consciousness of space, but besides mean you tin dine with views of the Grampians successful the distance.
There’s a complimentary nutrient hamper that includes vino from Pomonal Estate. Sip portion relaxing successful the outdoor cast-iron bath nether the stars.

The essentials
This is simply a year-round stay. It’s champion accessed by car. $650 a night; two-night minimum. See nookonthehill.com.au

Five much prima huts

New Pelion Hot, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania

Midway on Australia’s astir celebrated upland trail, the Overland Track, New Pelion Hut is akin to a crossroads inn. It’s the cleanable intermission on the track, surrounded by attainable summits and historical sites with country to slumber 36 hikers. The outgo is included successful the Overland Track Pass. See parks.tas.gov.au

CABN, assorted locations, South Australia

Born successful South Australia and present expanding crossed the country, CABN’s self-contained, off-grid tiny stays are designed to tread ultra-gently connected the surrounding environment. All are powered by the sun, built to conserve water, and furnished with eco-friendly amenities. From $229. See cabn.life

Red Hill Boat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

Stay connected the Mornington Peninsula astatine its astir unusually nautical accommodation connected a moving farm, kilometres from the sea. This dry-docked B&B – erstwhile a wartime rescue vessel – keeps the location fires burning (in the extracurricular firepit, that is) with a cosy mid-century feel. From $300 a night. See redhillboat.au

Nightfall Camp, Lamington National Park, South-East Queensland

Aussie bush meets past Gondwana rainforest astatine this luxurious, minimal-impact glamping retreat connected the isolated south-western borderline of World Heritage-Listed Lamington National Park. $1870 for 2 nights. See nightfall.com.au

Port Stephens Koala Sanctuary Glamping, Port Stephens, NSW

Just northbound of Newcastle, Port Stephens is location to 1 of the past remaining koala populations connected Australia’s eastbound coast. Stay overnight successful a structure astatine this unsocial sanctuary. $475 a night. See portstephenskoalasanctuary.com.au

Extract edited by Julietta Jameson.

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