Mount Compass: Golf, BMX and rural experiences

Mount Compass offers a range of reasons to visit, including golf, a large-scale BMX track, a Produce & Tourism Trail and an agricultural setting. If you’re looking for hotels in Mount Compass, it helps to first decide what you want to focus on during your stay. Options range from sporting activities to local producers, galleries and rural experiences. You can plan your trip around the themes that interest you most.

Golf and BMX as reasons to visit

Mount Compass Recreation Park includes a large-scale BMX track, mentioned in an Alexandrina Council notice from spring 2019. If using the track is an important part of your trip, check the latest operating information in advance.

Fleurieu Golf Course has 18 challenging and varied holes. It is set in gently rolling terrain and surrounded by natural bushland. Fleurieu Golf Club also has a full-size driving range with ten hitting bays. This gives you two different golf options to consider when planning your trip: playing the 18-hole course or using the range with its ten bays.

Rural character and the Produce Trail

Mount Compass is an agricultural district with green pastures, productive farms and winding roads through Nangkita and Tooperang. These rural features offer a different focus from the sporting activities. You can follow the Mount Compass Produce & Tourism Trail among farm shops, local producers, galleries and rural experiences. The trail offers an option if you’d like to include regional producers and galleries in your trip alongside golf or BMX.

Seasonal produce and a winery visit

Harvest the Fleurieu offers seasonal produce such as figs, snow peas, beans, tomatoes, quinces, blueberries, blackberries, garlic, corn and beetroot. Availability may vary. If you’re planning around particular products, check what’s available at the time of your visit.

The small, family-run Fleurieu Hills Vineyard offers regional platters. Wine tastings and cellar-door sales are by appointment. Confirm your planned visit before setting out so you can take the appointment requirement into account.

Art nearby

John Lacey's Studio & Green Tank Gallery is two kilometres south of Mount Compass. Visitors are invited to view works in progress or in storage at John Lacey's Studio. Opening arrangements may vary; check in advance whether a visit is possible on your chosen date. A studio visit offers a different focus from the sporting activities or the Produce Trail and may interest you if you’d like to include art in your trip.

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For the broader travel overview: Alexandrina Council.