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Ellerslie

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

Ellerslie
Ellerslie · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Mount 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
  2. 02
    Maungakiekie / 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
  3. 03
    Stardome 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
  4. 04
    Mount 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
  5. 05
    Cornwall 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
  6. 06
    Ellerslie 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
  7. 07
    Ōhinerau / 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
  8. 08
    Colin 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
  9. 09
    Rarotonga / 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
  10. 10
    Sylvia 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

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 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 → Ellerslie
    488 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · NZ$160–260
  • Christchurch → Ellerslie
    761 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · NZ$210–320
  • Queenstown → Ellerslie
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,040 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,431 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,435 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,185 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,345 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ellerslie

Ellerslie is 7 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.