Ellerslie
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand.

Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. Ellerslie lies seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1.
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Worth seeing in and around Ellerslie
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.
- 01Mount Smart Stadium
Mount Smart Stadium, branded as Go Media Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand. It is the main home ground of the New Zealand Warriors of the National Rugby League and Auckland FC of the A-League Men, and occasionally hosts rugby union and international rugby league matches.
2.3 km · football stadium in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is a 182-metre volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga in Auckland, New Zealand. It is an important place culturally and archeologically for both Māori and Pākehā.
2.3 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Stardome Observatory
Te Whatu Stardome is Auckland's planetarium and observatory and a trusted centre for celestial storytelling, astronomy, mātauranga Māori, and cosmological science. ‘Te Whatu’ links the concept of ‘the eye’ with knowledge and learning, and the cycle of life, death and renewal within the cosmos.
3 km · astronomical observatory in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 04Mount Saint John
Mount Saint John, is a volcanic scoria cone and Tūpuna Maunga in Epsom, in the Auckland volcanic field of New Zealand.
3 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 05Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park is an expansive parkland in Epsom near the heart of Auckland, New Zealand, surrounding the park containing Maungakiekie Pā or the hill of One Tree Hill. The two independent parks form one large park of 670 acres.
1.9 km · public park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 06Ellerslie Racecourse
Ellerslie Racecourse is the main racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand, for thoroughbred racehorses. It is an undulating, grass circuit in the suburb of Ellerslie, with a circumference of just under 1,900 metres.
900 m · racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 07Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson
Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson is a 143 m high volcanic cone and Tūpuna Maunga in the Auckland volcanic field in Auckland, New Zealand.
3 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 08Colin Maiden Park
Colin Maiden Park is a New Zealand sports complex in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes, about 10 kilometres south-east of the Auckland CBD. It is named in honour of Sir Colin Maiden, vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland from 1971 to 1994. There are three grass pitch cricket grounds and other sporting facilities in the park.
4 km · sports ground and park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 09Rarotonga / Mount Smart
Mount Smart is one of the volcanoes and Tūpuna Maunga in the Auckland volcanic field. A century of quarrying removed almost all the 87 metre scoria cone along with extensive terracing excavated by Māori.
2.3 km · mountain in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 10Sylvia Park
Sylvia Park is a large business park and shopping centre in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington in New Zealand. Less commonly known, the area around the centre is also called Sylvia Park.
3.5 km · Offices and shopping mall in Mount Wellington, Auckland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ellerslie
- Airports
- Auckland (AKL), 13 km
- Stations
- Penrose railway station, 1.6 km · Sylvia Park railway station, 3.6 km · Ellerslie railway station, 100 m · Greenlane railway station, 1.3 km · Remuera railway station, 2.7 km
- Wellington → Ellerslie488 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · NZ$160–260
- Christchurch → Ellerslie761 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · NZ$210–320
- Queenstown → EllerslieTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ellerslie
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 Ellerslie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is the main information centre for public transport, where you will find free bus, train and ferry schedules.
- Get inThe ferry terminal is across Quay St from Waitemata.
- Get inFerries run to several places on the North Shore, West Auckland (upper Waitematā Harbour) and East Auckland.
From Wikivoyage: Auckland/Central, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Ellerslie – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ellerslie
Ellerslie is 7 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Auckland isthmusurban area of Auckland2.5 km
- Onehungasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.5 km
- Penrosesuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.3 km
- Te Papapasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.5 km
- Remuerasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.5 km
- Mount Wellingtonsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.1 km