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 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.
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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.
- 01Puffing 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 - 02Burnham 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
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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 Creek33 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · A$5–7
- Geelong/Melbourne → Ferny Creek29 km · quickest by road, 56 min · A$4.5–6
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Ferny Creek581 km · quickest by air, 6h 6m · A$260–380
- 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 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.
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If you know how people move in Ferny Creek – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ferny Creek
Ferny Creek is 33 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.