Epic Adventure To Abandoned West Mount Hut Via Witchelina SA - Ultimate Day Trip From Farina!

West Mount Hut via Witchelina is an awesome day trip out of Farina SA. We went for a 35 kilometre drive out to Witchelina from Farina and then decided to drive another 40 kilometres or so out to West Mount Hut on Mularia Road. West Mount Hut is an abandoned hut with an old shearing shed. It was a cool place to explore. We spent a good hour or more looking around and could easily have spent a lot longer. There are more abandoned huts out that way so will have another look around next time we’re at Farina.

ABOUT WEST MOUNT HUT NEAR WITCHELINA SA
West Mount Hut on the West Mount Creek in South Australia is a hut about 550 kilometres north of Adelaide. West Mount Hut is at an altitude of approximately 127m. West Mount Hut is one of the northernmost huts in South Australia. The nearest ocean is the Southern Ocean about 270 kilometres south of West Mount Hut. The nearest more populous place is the village of Andamooka which is 76 kilometres away with a population of around 500.

WHY WAS WEST MOUNT HUT ABANDONED?
West Mount Hut and huts of its type were never really homes as such. They’re more like outbuildings that got used during shearing or when work was being done in the area. A lot of the properties are absolutely massive out this way and maybe 50 kilometres or more from the main homestead to these outbuildings. The land is so poor that massive areas were needed to run relatively small quantities of sheep. With the world fabric market moving more and more to synthetics there just isn’t the market for top quality merino wool that Australia used to supply so the big properties have had to change resulting in these huts and shearing sheds no longer being used.

If you plan on visiting west Mount Hut please be respectful and responsible. Have a look around and take as many photos as you like but leave everything exactly as you found it. It looks as if everyone that has visited here has done exactly that.