🌬️ Penong, Australia
Windmills, wide horizons, and the last stop before the Nullarbor on the Eyre Highway
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in far-west South Australia on the Eyre Highway
- Last reliable fuel and food stop before the Nullarbor Plain crossing
- Home to Australia's largest windmill museum display with dozens of restored historic windmills
- Serves as gateway between coastal farming country and remote interior
Penong is a small settlement in far-west South Australia positioned along the Eyre Highway just before the vast, treeless expanse of the Nullarbor Plain. For road-trippers, it marks a practical threshold — the final outpost of services, fuel, food, and community before hundreds of kilometres of open highway. What appears at first glance to be a quiet roadhouse town reveals itself as a functional hub with character and a surprisingly photogenic landscape ...