Horseriding

If you're after a relaxing horse ride through beautiful scenery, try South Australia's forests, offering plenty of trails ideal for horseriding.

Kuitpo Forest, 45 minutes south of Adelaide, has a number of horseriding trails and is easily accessible with a range of entry points and plenty of parking for floats.

Enjoy some of South Australia's majestic countryside along the Kidman Trail, with its forest tracks and quiet country roads. Stretching 255 kilometres from Willunga in the Fleurieu Peninsula to Kapunda in the Clare Valley, the Kidman Trail is a multi-use trail catering for horse riders, walkers and cyclists. Trailheads providing information on horse yards, campsites and float parking are being installed along the route. Visit the Kidman Trail website for more information.

A little closer to the city, the Tom Roberts Trail, a multi-use trail, winds through 18.5 kilometres of Belair National Park or the Coast to Vines Rail Trail.

If you don't have your own horse there's a number of tourism operators across South Australia that can get you in the saddle. You can check out the countryside with Burra Trail Rides, head out bush with the horses at Rawnsley Park Station.

Other horse riding centres offering trail riding:
Narnu Farm, Hindmarsh Island
Lands End Riding Centre, Sunset Cove
Wirraway Homestead
Bensen Park, Waikerie
Templewood Horse Riding Centre
High Country Trails, Normanville

And you can catch equestrian action right in the heart of the city at the Australian International Three Day Event, a horse riding competition held every year.