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Dry Creek, South Australia

Dry Creek is a mostly industrial suburb north of Adelaide, containing significant wetlands.

Dry Creek, South Australia
Dry Creek, South Australia · Frank Schulenburg
The place

Dry Creek is a mostly industrial suburb north of Adelaide, containing significant wetlands. Until 2014, a substantial area was devoted to salt crystallisation pans and there are plans to redevelop the site for housing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dry Creek, South Australia

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
    Dry Creek explosives depot

    The Dry Creek explosives depot was a secure storage facility at Dry Creek, near Port Adelaide, from 1904 to 1995, serving the construction, mining and quarrying industries of South Australia and the mines of Broken Hill in New South Wales.

    600 m · building in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Folland Park

    Folland Park is a fenced, 3.5-hectare reserve in the suburb of Enfield, South Australia. It is owned by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, and consists of significant remnant vegetation that once covered much of the Adelaide Plains.

    3.6 km · park in Enfield, South Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Adelaide Super-Drome

    The Adelaide Super-Drome is a velodrome located at Adelaide, South Australia's State Sports Park, Main North Road, Gepps Cross. The Super-Drome was designed by Architect Carlo Gnezda and was opened in 1993.

    2.8 km · velodrome in Gepps Cross, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    State Hockey Centre

    The State Hockey Centre, currently known as MATE Stadium, is a 4,000 capacity, government owned outdoor field hockey stadium located in Gepps Cross, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It offers two international-standard wet hockey pitches which are used for both competition and training activities.

    2.5 km · stadium in Gepps Cross, Australia · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Dry Creek, South Australia

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 13 km
Stations
Kilburn railway station, 2.9 km · Dry Creek railway station, 300 m
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Dry Creek, South Australia
    668 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · A$250–370
  • Melbourne → Dry Creek, South Australia
    663 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · A$230–350
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Dry Creek, South Australia
    1161 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · A$240–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dry Creek, South Australia

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 Dry Creek, South Australia. 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
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    158 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,203 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,759 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,718 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,626 km

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Around it

Next door to Dry Creek, South Australia

Dry Creek, South Australia is 11 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.