Overview
About Karijini Eco Retreat
Why stop
- A choice of ensuite eco tents, cabins and unpowered sites near Joffre Gorge.
Heads up
- The restaurant is seasonal, and shared campground facilities can queue at busy times.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Karijini Tour Guide
Your drive to Karijini Eco Retreat, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Karijini National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Karijini audio tourRecorded for this place
Karijini Eco Retreat and Outback Restaurant“You’re coming up on Karijini Eco Retreat, an Aboriginal-owned bushland base beside Joffre Gorge.”
Plays as you drive up to Karijini Eco Retreat in the Parkwolf Karijini Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Joffre Falls and Lookout
- How a Kestrel Hangs in the Air
- The Scales in a Moth's Pattern
- Rain Beneath the Surface
- 141 audio storiesacross Karijini’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Dingo, Rock Wallaby, Mulga Snake, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 22 trails, 30 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Karijini Eco Retreat
A bushland base by Joffre GorgeKarijini Eco Retreat is a bushland accommodation site at the edge of Joffre Gorge, with…
Karijini Eco Retreat is a bushland accommodation site at the edge of Joffre Gorge, with furnished safari-style eco tents and cabins alongside an unpowered campground. It works best as a multi-night base: Joffre Gorge is within walking distance, while the park’s other gorge walks are reached by driving to their trailheads. The walk varies with where you stay.
Choose your setupThe eco tents have beds, linen, wooden floors, natural ventilation and a full ensuite.
The eco tents have beds, linen, wooden floors, natural ventilation and a full ensuite. Cabins and unpowered sites give visitors other ways to stay; the unpowered area accommodates tents, caravans and campers. Traditional campers share showers, flushing toilets, a camp kitchen and barbecues. These facilities differ by accommodation area, and tent campers sometimes report queues at busy periods.
Food and essentialsAn outback restaurant and bar, kiosk and souvenir shop are on site.
An outback restaurant and bar, kiosk and souvenir shop are on site. The restaurant operates seasonally, so check what is available before planning around it. Shared kitchen and barbecue facilities give traditional campers another option.
JijingunhaJoffre Gorge is known to the Banjima people as Jijingunha.
Joffre Gorge is known to the Banjima people as Jijingunha. The retreat is Aboriginal-owned and associated with the Gumala group, making it a locally connected place to stay as well as a practical base for exploring the gorge country.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Karijini
44 sightingsDingoMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
18 sightingsRock WallabyMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
15 sightingsMulga SnakeMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
36 sightingsHamersley Rock MonitorMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
13 sightingsWestern BowerbirdMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
34 sightingsChildren's PythonMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Karijini. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
