ALL VISITORS MUST HAVE AN ACCESS PASS OR GUIDED TOUR TICKET TO ENTER GHOST MUSHROOM LANE.
Access Pass – unavailable until further notice
$20 PER VEHICLE
Please note: Ghost Mushroom Lane is not suitable for buses, caravans, campervans or trailers. Car-parking is available out the front. Commercial tour and bus operators must contact ForestrySA in advance to arrange access.
Guided tours
A range of tours are available to book throughout the ghost mushroom season (May and June).
Book a tour or contact the tour operator for more information.
About the Ghost Mushroom Lane Access Pass
Access Passes were first implemented at Ghost Mushroom Lane in season 2021.
Passes cost $20 per vehicle and provide all passengers on board with direct after-dark access to the forest and the eerie glow within.
Upon entry, visitors are free to explore the 2.3km Ghost Mushroom Lane and multiple forest walking trails along the way, which are regularly re-routed by our staff as mushroom colonies continue to die off and re-emerge throughout the season. This ensures visitors are led straight to the most spectacular mushroom colonies available at Ghost Mushroom Lane at the time of their visit.
ForestrySA was pleased to provide free entry to visitors for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons, however, the labour intensive nature of the site means we now charge a small fee to enjoy Ghost Mushroom Lane.
Ghost Mushroom Lane is a temporary, seasonal visitor site installed in a working pine plantation.
The process of setting up and providing a safe, accessible, high-quality, visitor-ready site for duration of the eight week season is a labour intensive one for our team of operations, Ranger, office and communications staff.
Our team spends hundreds of hours on tasks such as roadworks, track clearing, mushroom spotting, walking trail marking, information sign production and installation. We also work hard to keep visitors in the know with regular web and social media updates and ongoing media promotion.
And once the season comes to a close on 30 June, all visitor infrastructure is removed and put into storage and site remediation is carried out.
Ghost Mushroom Lane also has a very positive flow-on effect for the Limestone Coast region as a whole. The unique experience has attracted tens of thousands of visitors during the last four seasons, drawing inter-state and international visitors during the tourism off-season – and in the cold, wet, dark of winter! – and creating significant media exposure.
Main photograph courtesy of Alex Window.
