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Curl Curl

Curl Curl is a suburb of northern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council.

Curl Curl
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The place

Curl Curl is a suburb of northern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Curl Curl

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
    Manly Beach

    Manly Beach is a beach situated among the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. From north to south, the three main sections are Queenscliff, North Steyne and South Steyne.

    2 km · beach situated in Sydney's Northern Beaches, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shelly Beach

    Shelly Beach is a beach located in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is adjacent to North Head and Fairy Bower.

    3.2 km · beach in Manly, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Manly Dam

    The Manly Dam is a heritage-listed dam near King Street, Manly Vale with a reservoir extending into Allambie Heights, both in the Northern Beaches Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is often used as a place to have recreational activities.

    3.3 km · dam in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fairy Bower Beach

    Fairy Bower is a beach in the Manly area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Fairy Bower is an affluent area, located close to Shelly Beach and North Head.

    3 km · beach in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Westfield Warringah Mall

    Westfield Warringah Mall is a large indoor/outdoor shopping centre in the suburb of Brookvale in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney.

    2.4 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Little Manly Beach

    Little Manly Beach is situated on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, within Little Manly Cove, which is separated from the larger Manly Cove by Manly Point.

    3.8 km · beach in Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Manly Art Gallery and Museum

    The Manly Art Gallery and Museum, located in Manly, New South Wales, Australia, was the first metropolitan-based regional gallery in New South Wales and holds an extensive collection of Australian ceramics and 130 works by Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. Since 1982, MAGAM has also been a museum of beach culture and the history of Manly and the Northern Beaches.

    3 km · Museum in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Brookvale Oval

    Brookvale Oval is a stadium located in the Sydney suburb of Brookvale. It is primarily used for rugby league as the home ground of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League.

    2 km · Sports stadium and home ground of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stony Range Flora Reserve

    Stony Range Botanic Garden is a botanic garden specialising in native Australian flora located in Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia. The garden is wheelchair accessible, has walking tracks of varying lengths and inclinations, and can be booked for functions and weddings.

    1.7 km · botanical garden in Dee Why, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Manly Oval

    Manly Oval is a sporting ground located in Manly, New South Wales, Australia, primarily used for cricket and rugby union. The ground serves as the home ground for the Manly Marlins and Manly Warringah District Cricket Club.

    3 km · park in 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 Curl Curl

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 22 km · Newcastle (NTL), 120 km
  • Williamtown → Curl Curl
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · A$21–28
  • Gold Coast → Curl Curl
    673 km · quickest by air, 5h 40m · A$260–380
  • Toowoomba → Curl Curl
    693 km · quickest by air, 5h 28m · A$250–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Curl Curl

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn the south, the Northern Beaches are connected to Circular Quay by the famous Manly Ferry, running every fifteen minutes between Manly and the (Sydney City Centre).
  • Get inFrom the north, there is also Palm Beach Ferries which operates between Palm Beach and Ettalong (on the Central Coast) and runs every hour or two.
  • Get aroundThere are a couple of specialised local service ferries around the northern beaches.
  • Get aroundThe Church Point Ferry company provides services on Pittwater between Church Point and Scotland Island.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Northern Beaches, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    969 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,115 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,300 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,871 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,264 km

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

Around it

Next door to Curl Curl

Curl Curl is 13 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Manlysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3 km
  • Dee Whysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2 km
  • Freshwatersuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia500 m
  • Balgowlahsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
  • Fairlightsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • Brookvalesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.2 km