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Ferny Creek

Ferny Creek is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area.

Ferny Creek
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The place

Ferny Creek is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Ferny Creek recorded a population of 1,524 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ferny Creek

2 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
    Puffing Billy Railway

    Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.

    3.8 km · heritage rail service in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Burnham Beeches

    The Burnham Beeches is a mansion and its associated gardens, located on Sherbrooke Road in Sherbrooke, in the Dandenong Ranges, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1930 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the house was built for Alfred Nicholas, a sales magnate for the Australian subsidiary of Aspro.

    2 km · heritage-listed mansion in Sherbrooke, Yarra Ranges, Victoria, 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.

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Getting to Ferny Creek

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 49 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 78 km
Stations
Belgrave, 3.9 km · Ferntree Gully, 3.5 km · Upper Ferntree Gully, 2.9 km · Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station, 3.8 km
  • Melbourne → Ferny Creek
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · A$5–7
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Ferny Creek
    29 km · quickest by road, 56 min · A$4.5–6
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Ferny Creek
    581 km · quickest by air, 6h 6m · A$260–380
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ferny Creek

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 Ferny Creek. 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
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    625 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    757 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,589 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,025 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,237 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ferny Creek

Ferny Creek is 33 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Upweysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.8 km
  • Tecomasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.2 km
  • Olindatown in Victoria, Australia3.5 km
  • The Basinsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.7 km
  • Tremonttown in Victoria, Australia1 km
  • Kallistalocality in Victoria, Australia3.3 km