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McLaren Flat

McLaren Flat is a township in the McLaren Vale/Willunga basin south of Adelaide.

The place

McLaren Flat is a township in the McLaren Vale/Willunga basin south of Adelaide. McLaren Flat is on the sprawling flat land to the east of the town of McLaren Vale on the road to Kangarilla. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 1,537 of which 1,121 lived in its town centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to McLaren Flat

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 29 km
Stations
McLaren Vale railway station, 3.8 km · Taringa railway station, Adelaide, 4.1 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → McLaren Flat
    644 km · quickest by air, 6h 14m · A$290–420
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  • Melbourne → McLaren Flat
    639 km · quickest by air, 5h 59m · A$270–400
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  • Hobart (Cambridge) → McLaren Flat
    1144 km · quickest by air, 7h 45m · A$280–420
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for McLaren Flat

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for McLaren Flat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFor a day trip, you can rent a bicycle and take the Coast to Vines Rail Trail (see Do section) to get to McLaren Vale and Willunga.

From Wikivoyage: McLaren Vale, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Next door to McLaren Flat

McLaren Flat is 31 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • McLaren Valetown in South Australia5.6 km
  • The Rangelocality in South Australia5.4 km
  • Mawsonstate electoral district of South Australia3.5 km
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