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Forest Lake

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Forest Lake

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
    Mary McConnel School

    Mary McConnel School is a joint initiative of the Anglican Church of Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia. It is operated by EDUCANG Limited, along with Forest Lake College, The FLC International Centre, The Lakes College and The Springfield College.

    500 m · Anglican-Uniting Church school in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John's Anglican College, Brisbane

    St John's Anglican College is an independent Anglican co-educational primary and secondary day school located in the southwestern Brisbane suburb of Forest Lake, Queensland, Australia. The College was established in 1994 and caters for students from Prep to Year 12.

    600 m · independent co-educational primary and secondary day school in Forest Lake, Queensland · 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 Forest Lake

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 31 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 80 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 115 km
Stations
Richlands railway station, 3.9 km
  • Gold Coast → Forest Lake
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · A$9–12
  • Maroochydore → Forest Lake
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · A$15–20
  • Toowoomba → Forest Lake
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · A$13–18
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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 Forest Lake

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 Forest Lake. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Brisbane, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,737 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,816 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,315 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,974 km

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

Around it

Next door to Forest Lake

Forest Lake is 14 km from Logan City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Richlandssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.6 km
  • Carole Parksuburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia3.7 km
  • Inalastate electoral district of Queensland, Australia2.1 km
  • Heathwoodsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia1.6 km
  • Doolandellasuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia1.7 km
  • Ellen Grovesuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.1 km