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Grafton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grafton

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
    Grafton Bridge

    The Grafton Bridge is a heritage-listed bascule truss bridge that carries Bent Street and North Coast railway line across the Clarence River in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge links the Grafton central business district with South Grafton, and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

    2 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Balun Bindarray Bridge

    The Balun Bindarray Bridge, formerly the New Grafton Bridge, is a bridge located 70 metres east of the Grafton Bridge and opened to traffic on 12 December 2019. The bridge carries two lanes of Shirley Adams Way and has been designed to be increased to four lanes when traffic levels require it.

    2.1 km · Bridge in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grafton

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 177 km · Brisbane (BNE), 256 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 261 km
Stations
Grafton railway station, New South Wales, 2.6 km
  • Gold Coast → Grafton
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · A$29–39
  • Brisbane → Grafton
    246 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · A$38–50
  • Toowoomba → Grafton
    254 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · A$43–55
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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 Grafton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest airports with commercial service are at Coffs Harbour, 87 km to the south, or Ballina, a 140-km trek to the north, and car hire is available from both (advance booking recommended).

From Wikivoyage: Grafton (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Grafton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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