--- title: "East Side – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "East Side, Australia: locality. Nearby: Anzac Hill, Women's Museum of Australia, Alice Springs Reptile Centre. Every way there from the planner, and what…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-side" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-side.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Locality · Australia · Northern Territory # East Side What is there ## Worth seeing in and around East Side 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. Anzac Hill ANZAC Hill, at 608 meters, is located in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia and it is on the lands of the Arrernte people. The Arrernte name of ANZAC Hill have been recorded as both Untyeyetwelye and Atnelkentyarliweke. 1.2 km · mountain in Alice Springs (Mparntwe), Northern Territory · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Hill) 2. Women's Museum of Australia The Women's Museum of Australia, formerly the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, is a museum focused on the place of women in Australian history, situated in the restored HM Gaol and Labour Prison building in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 2.1 km · Australian museum dedicated to identifying and preserving the place of women in Australian history · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Museum_of_Australia) 3. Alice Springs Reptile Centre The Alice Springs Reptile Centre is a privately operated reptile centre and environmental education facility in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It contains the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory. 2.5 km · zoo in Northern Territory, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs_Reptile_Centre) 4. Alice Springs Telegraph Station The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central Australia. 2.3 km · heritage-listed telegraph station in the Alice Springs, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs_Telegraph_Station) 5. Olive Pink Botanic Garden Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a 16-hectare botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region. 1.8 km · botanical garden in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Pink_Botanic_Garden) 6. Central Australian Aviation Museum The Central Australian Aviation Museum is an aviation museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 3.2 km · aviation museum in Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Australian_Aviation_Museum) 7. Alice Springs Public Library The Alice Springs Public Library is a public library service in the Northern Territory. The library provides traditional library services to the community of Alice Springs and is an essential part of the Central Australian community and receives more than 120,000 visitors every year. 1.5 km · library in Northern Territory, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs_Public_Library) 8. The Residency, Alice Springs The Residency is a historic one-storey house located in Alice Springs, Australia. The building holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory. 1.4 km · building in Northern Territory, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residency,_Alice_Springs) 9. Billy Goat Hill Billy Goat Hill, or Akeyulerre, is located in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia and, together with the nearby ANZAC Hill, has important Dreaming associations include two sisters, alongside uninitiated boys, who were travelling north and were engaged in flirtatious and humorous behaviour these sites; further north these interactions became violent. These two hills are the most prominent in the Central Business District of Alice Springs and, as such have been extensively used by Europeans and, as such, Billy Goat Hill is now very close to major roads and, for many years, housed the towns water towers. 2 km · a hill in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Goat_Hill_(Alice_Springs%29) 10. Todd Mall The Todd Mall is a mostly pedestrian mall in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia which serves as its "main street" and is one of the primary locations for shopping and leisure in the town. It contains many of the town's restaurants. 1.4 km · shopping mall in Northern Territory, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Mall) 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 East Side **Stations:** Alice Springs railway station, 2 km\ - Darwin → East Side 1290 km · quickest by road, 16h · A$180–240 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/darwin-to-east-side) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=East+Side) - Adelaide → East Side 1330 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · A$210–320 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/adelaide-to-east-side) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Adelaide&to=East+Side) - Broome → East Side 1368 km · quickest by road, 30h 30m · A$330–435 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/broome-to-east-side) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Broome&to=East+Side) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=East%20Side) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for East Side 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 East Side. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Larapinta Drive and Ross Highway are sealed for a couple hundred kilometres in each direction, but after that they convert to dirt roads which you will need a 4x4 vehicle to access. - Go next There is a web of dirt trails - sometimes called unsealed roads - which surrounds Alice Springs, and some of the nicest places within a few hours drive will require a four-wheel drive vehicle (4x4) to get to. From [Wikivoyage: Alice Springs](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Alice_Springs), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. 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Around it ## Next door to East Side - [Alice Springs](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alice-springs) city in the Northern Territory, Australia 2.8 km - [Gillen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gillen) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 3.6 km - [Sadadeen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sadadeen) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 1.2 km - [Stuart](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stuart) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 1.1 km - [Undoolya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/undoolya) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 2.4 km - [Braitling](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/braitling) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 2.7 km [The place page for East Side](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/east-side) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Australia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AU) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-side, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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