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Adamstown Heights

Adamstown Heights is a southern suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 8 kilometres (5 mi) west-southwest of Newcastle's central business district along the Pacific Highway.

Adamstown Heights
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The place

Adamstown Heights is a southern suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 8 kilometres (5 mi) west-southwest of Newcastle's central business district along the Pacific Highway. It is split between the City of Lake Macquarie and City of Newcastle local government areas. On 6 September 1991 Adamstown heights officially become a suburb of Newcastle.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Adamstown Heights

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Newcastle International Sports Centre

    Newcastle International Sports Centre is a stadium located in the Newcastle suburb of New Lambton. It is primarily used for rugby league and soccer as the home ground of the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, and Newcastle Jets FC in the A-League Men.

    3.6 km · stadium in Newcastle, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Charlestown

    Charlestown is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, and the largest suburb in Lake Macquarie and in the Greater Newcastle area. It is approximately 10 kilometres west-south-west of the central business district of Newcastle.

    3.1 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Garden Suburb

    Garden Suburb is a small semi-rural suburb in the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in the Greater Newcastle area in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 2 kilometres east of Cardiff.

    3 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Newcastle Entertainment Centre

    Newcastle Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose Australian arena within the Newcastle Showground. It was opened in 1992.

    3.8 km · multi-purpose Australian arena · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Westfield Kotara

    Westfield Kotara is a large shopping centre in the Newcastle suburb of Kotara in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Westfield Kotara is one of the two Westfield branded shopping centres in New South Wales that is not located within the Greater Sydney area, with Westfield Tuggerah being located on the Central Coast.

    600 m · Shopping mall in Kotara, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Broadmeadow Basketball Stadium

    The Newcastle Basketball Stadium, also known as the Broadmeadow Basketball Stadium and formerly known as the Newcastle Sports Entertainment Centre, is an indoor basketball stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and was the original home of the Newcastle Falcons of the National Basketball League from the origin of the league in 1979 until they moved to the newly built Newcastle Entertainment Centre in 1992. The stadium is currently the home of the Newcastle Basketball Association and can hold approximately 2,200 spectators.

    3.4 km · Indoor basketball stadium · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hunter Medical Research Institute

    The Hunter Medical Research Institute is a medical research institute located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1998, the research institute is a partnership between the University of Newcastle, Hunter New England Local Health District, and the community.

    3.5 km · Australian medical research institute · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Glenrock early coalmining sites

    Glenrock early coalmining sites is a heritage-listed former coal mine and now recreation Park within the Glenrock State Conservation Area in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Industrial Archaeological Site.

    2.7 km · heritage-listed mining site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kahibah Public School

    Kahibah Public School is a government-funded co-educational primary day school, located in Kahibah, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1938 in the Kahibah Memorial Hall, it moved to its current location in 1954.

    2.1 km · school in Lake Macquarie LGA, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Adamstown Heights

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 20 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 122 km
Stations
Adamstown railway station, 1.8 km · Broadmeadow railway station, 3.5 km · Kotara railway station, 1.4 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Adamstown Heights
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · A$21–27
  • Gold Coast → Adamstown Heights
    574 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · A$240–350
  • Toowoomba → Adamstown Heights
    600 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · A$230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Adamstown Heights

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Adamstown Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.

From Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Around it

Next door to Adamstown Heights

Adamstown Heights is 7 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.