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Coolaroo

Coolaroo is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km (11 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area.

Coolaroo
Coolaroo · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Coolaroo is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km (11 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area. Coolaroo recorded a population of 3,193 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coolaroo

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
    Greenvale Reservoir

    The Greenvale Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Greenvale Dam, an earth-filled embankment dam across the upper Yuroke Creek, also fed by an off-stream storage, located in the suburb of Greenvale and to the west of Roxburgh Park, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1973, the impoundment serves as a source of supply of potable water for Greater Metropolitan Melbourne.

    3.4 km · lake in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Penola Catholic College

    Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Patron of the college is Saint Mary MacKillop.

    3.5 km · co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Scots Uniting Church

    The Scots Uniting Church is a heritage-listed Uniting Church in Australia church, located at 1702 Hume Highway, Campbellfield, Hume City, Victoria, Australia. The church was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 9 October 1974 in recognition of its historical, architectural and archaeological significance; and has one of the four remaining churchyards in Victoria.

    3.4 km · heritage-listed church in Campbellfield, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    John Ilhan Memorial Reserve

    John Ilhan Memorial Reserve, commercially known as Nasiol Stadium and formerly known as ABD Stadium and VPEC, Valley Park Events Centre and often referred to as Broadmeadows Valley Park, is an Australian soccer ground in Broadmeadows, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is the home of Hume City FC. The venue has a capacity of 3,000 and is the only stadium in the City of Hume that is up to NPL standard.

    1.3 km · Soccer stadium in Broadmeadows, Victoria · 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 Coolaroo

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 8 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 59 km
Stations
Upfield, 2 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Coolaroo
    21 km · quickest by road, 50 min · A$3–4.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Coolaroo
    616 km · quickest by air, 4h 12m · A$170–260
  • Adelaide → Coolaroo
    644 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · A$180–280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coolaroo

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    658 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,586 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,069 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,196 km

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

Around it

Next door to Coolaroo

Coolaroo is 18 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.