Milparinka is a small settlement in north-west New South Wales, Australia, about 250 kilometres (155 mi) north of Broken Hill on the Silver City Highway.

Around March of each year, they would harvest and thresh various local native grasses to obtain seeds to make a type of flour for subsistence.

[4][5] In 1880, a local Indigenous woman showed prospector James Evans gold nuggets lying on the surface of Mt Browne.

[10][11] At its height, Milparinka had a newspaper, a police office, a chemist shop, two butchers, a courthouse (1886), a school (1883), a hospital (1889) and four hotels.

[18] Milparinka’s decline is based on two events, the failure of the gold fields to be productive and the impact of WW1 on the number of young people left in the area.

[23] These pioneer stories include that of Matilda Wallace, at Sturts Meadows Station, who was one of the earliest female pastoralists in the area West of the Darling.

The room features a painting of Matilda and child by the award-winning Broken Hill artist, Jodi Daly.

The route connects about 1100 kilometre of sealed and unsealed roads from Broken Hill to Milparinka, Tibooburra and Cameron Corner to create a circular touring loop.

Ruth Sandow, OAM, was founder of the Milparinka Heritage and Tourism Association and instrumental in the formation of the Sturt Steps infrastructure project.

[32] A fundamental understanding of the land and environment helped Aboriginal tribes to survive, especially their ability to find and conserve water.

[33] Milparinka has been transformed into an award-winning Heritage Town with restored colonial buildings, a Visitor Information Centre, a variety of attractions, a caravan park and an historic hotel.