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Doonside

Doonside is a suburb in the metropolis of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Doonside
Doonside · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Doonside is a suburb in the metropolis of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Doonside is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Featherdale Wildlife Park and the Nurragingy Nature Reserve are popular local tourist attractions.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Doonside

7 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
    Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park

    Featherdale Wildlife Park is a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney, Australia. The park is located in Sydney's west, approximately 40 km from Sydney's CBD. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna.

    1.7 km · wildlife park in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sydney Zoo

    Sydney Zoo is a zoo in Bungarribee in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Zoo is located 38 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district.

    2.4 km · zoo in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Westpoint Blacktown

    Westpoint Blacktown is a large suburban shopping centre situated in Blacktown, Western Sydney, New South Wales. It was first opened in 1973, and then renovated and expanded in 2006, making it one of the biggest shopping centres in Western Sydney.

    3.6 km · shopping centre in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blacktown ISP Oval

    Blacktown International Sportspark Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Sydney suburb of Rooty Hill. It was constructed in 2009 as part of the Blacktown International Sportspark.

    700 m · Sports ground in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wonderland Sydney

    Wonderland Sydney was an amusement park in Eastern Creek, Sydney, Australia that operated from 1985 until 2004. It was the largest park by land area in the southern hemisphere.

    3.9 km · theme park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Government Depot Site, Rooty Hill

    Government Depot Site is a heritage-listed archaeological site at the location of the former Government Stock Farm on Dunsmore Street, Rooty Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was built from 1815 to 1819 It is also known as Government Depot Site, Government Depot Ruins, Thornleigh, Stratton and Rooty Hill Government Farm.

    1.5 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Imperial Hotel, Rooty Hill

    Imperial Hotel is a heritage-listed Australian pub at 1 Rooty Hill Road North, Rooty Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. The property is owned by Dyemist Pty Ltd.

    2.2 km · historic site 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 Doonside

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 35 km · Newcastle (NTL), 141 km
Stations
Blacktown railway station, 3.8 km · Doonside railway station, 600 m · Rooty Hill railway station, 2 km
  • Williamtown → Doonside
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · A$21–28
  • Gold Coast → Doonside
    686 km · quickest by air, 6h 15m · A$270–400
  • Melbourne → Doonside
    697 km · quickest by air, 6h 17m · A$280–410
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Doonside

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 Doonside. 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    977 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,104 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,262 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,899 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,234 km

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

Around it

Next door to Doonside

Doonside is 33 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blacktownsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
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  • Eastern Creeksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Plumptonsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
  • Arndell Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
  • Marayongsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.2 km