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Boolaroo

Boolaroo is a suburb and former town of Greater Newcastle, city of Lake Macquarie, in New South Wales, Australia.

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The place

Boolaroo is a suburb and former town of Greater Newcastle, city of Lake Macquarie, in New South Wales, Australia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boolaroo

4 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
    Cardiff

    Cardiff is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie LGA of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 17 kilometres west-southwest of Newcastle.

    3.3 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hunter Ice Skating Stadium

    The Hunter Ice Skating Stadium is an ice sports and public skate centre, opened in 2000 and located in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. The stadium serves as the home ice rink of the Newcastle Northstars who compete in the Australian Ice Hockey League and East Coast Super League.

    3 km · ice arena in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Feighan Park

    Warners Bay is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located 15 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It is often regarded as a part of the Greater Newcastle district.

    2.1 km · park in Warners Bay, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Booragul

    Booragul is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, and is located north-northeast of the town of Toronto on the western shore Lake Macquarie. Booragul railway station is on the Central Coast & Newcastle Line.

    2.3 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, 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 Boolaroo

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 27 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 117 km
Stations
Cardiff railway station, 4 km · Booragul railway station, 2.4 km · Cockle Creek railway station, 1.7 km · Teralba railway station, 2 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Boolaroo
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · A$19–25
  • Gold Coast → Boolaroo
    577 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · A$250–370
  • Toowoomba → Boolaroo
    600 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · A$240–370
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boolaroo

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 Boolaroo. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    874 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,211 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,354 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,915 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,228 km

If you know how people move in Boolaroo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Boolaroo

Boolaroo is 15 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cardiff Southlocality in New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Marmong Pointlocality in New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Argentonlocality in New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Lakelandslocality in New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Teralbalocality in New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Warners Baylocality in New South Wales, Australia3.6 km