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Box Hill North

Box Hill North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Whitehorse local government area.

Box Hill North
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The place

Box Hill North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Whitehorse local government area. Box Hill North recorded a population of 12,337 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Box Hill North

10 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
    Ruffey Lake Park

    The Ruffey Lake Park is a 66-to-68-hectare urban park in the City of Manningham, in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The park is a terminus of the Ruffey Creek Trail.

    3.9 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wattle Park

    Wattle Park is a 41-hectare urban park in Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is known for its plantation of 12,000 wattle trees.

    3.8 km · park in Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Greythorn Park

    Greythorn Park is a park in the suburb of Balwyn North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern part of the suburb known as Greythorn, from which the park gets its name.

    2.5 km · park in Balwyn North, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Macleay Park

    Macleay Park is a multi-sports complex in the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North. It hosts Australian rules football, cricket, soccer, baseball and netball matches.

    4 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    South Surrey Park

    South Surrey Park is a park in Melbourne, Australia, located in the suburb of Surrey Hills. The park is progressively being replanted with indigenous native species.

    3.7 km · park in City of Boroondara, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Box Hill Cemetery

    The Box Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Box Hill, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The 12.5-hectare site is known as the resting place of notable figures from Melbourne.

    2.2 km · cemetery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Box Hill City Oval

    Box Hill City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. It is the home of the Box Hill Hawks, which plays in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's competitions, and the Box Hill Cricket Club, which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.

    2 km · Stadium in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Doncaster Hill

    Doncaster Hill is one of the highest points in the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the suburb of Doncaster, it is 120 metres above sea level and has uninterrupted views of the city, Port Phillip, Macedon Ranges, the You Yang Ranges and Dandenong Ranges.

    2.2 km · hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Maranoa Botanic Gardens

    The Maranoa Botanic Gardens is a 3.5-hectare botanical garden located in Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is significant as being one of the first and only botanical gardens in the world dedicated solely to Australian native plants.

    2.7 km · botanical garden in Balwyn, Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Westfield Doncaster

    Westfield Doncaster is a large shopping centre and public transport interchange in the eastern suburb of Doncaster in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the first shopping centre built by the Westfield Group in Victoria.

    2.7 km · shopping centre in Melbourne, 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.

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Getting to Box Hill North

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 29 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 63 km
Stations
Laburnum, 2.4 km · Canterbury, 3.9 km · Chatham, 3.3 km · Union Station, 2.5 km · Doncaster Park and Ride bus station, 2.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Box Hill North
    11 km · quickest by road, 35 min · A$2–2.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Box Hill North
    595 km · quickest by air, 5h 10m · A$220–330
  • Adelaide → Box Hill North
    666 km · quickest by air, 5h 27m · A$240–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Box Hill North

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 Box Hill North. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne, 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
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    637 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    737 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,592 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,046 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,220 km

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Around it

Next door to Box Hill North

Box Hill North is 14 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Box Hillsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria1.7 km
  • Balwyn Northsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
  • Q4922699locality in Victoria, Australia2.8 km
  • Balwynsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.6 km