Underground

Desert Cave Hotel

Iconic underground hotel on Hutchison Street with rooms cut into the rock, a café, bar, pool and opal display.

• Good with kids
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Radeka Downunder Motel & Backpackers

Central underground motel and backpacker rooms - recently under new ownership with exciting changes underway.

• Underground

St Peter & Paul's Catholic Church

An underground Catholic church carved into the rock - completing Coober Pedy's trio of dugout churches.

• Free
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The Lookout Cave Underground Motel

Underground motel rooms and dugout apartments carved up to 25 metres into the sandstone.

• Good with kids
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Umoona Opal Mine & Museum

Walk through a real underground mine, a free museum and a preserved dugout home - Coober Pedy's biggest attraction and a perfect first stop.

• Good with kids
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Catacomb Church (Anglican)

A cross-shaped underground church cut from sandstone in 1977, with fittings made from mulga wood and an old miner's winch.

• Free
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Crocodile Harry's Dugout

The wonderfully eccentric underground home of a former croc hunter - a Mad Max filming location.

• Underground

Down to Erth B&B

Boutique underground bed & breakfast offering a true private dugout stay.

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Faye's Underground Home

A hand-dug underground home famous for being excavated by three women - with an underground pool.

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Old Timers Mine

Hand-dug 1916 opal mine turned museum, with an original underground home and self-guided tours.

• Good with kids
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Riba's Underground Camping & Caravan Park

The world's first underground camping - pitch a tent in a mine, plus sites and a nightly mine tour.

• Good with kids
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Serbian Orthodox Church of St Elijah

The largest underground church in town - 17m below ground, with carved rock walls and stained glass.

• Free
• Underground

The Underground Motel

Quiet underground motel on the edge of town with Breakaways views and a guest kitchen.

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Faith Below the Surface: Coober Pedy's Underground Churches

How a multicultural mining town built some of the world's most extraordinary churches underground.

The Cave Homes (Dugouts) of Coober Pedy

Why more than half of Coober Pedy lives underground - the story of the dugout.