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Killara

Killara is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Killara
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The place

Killara is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Killara is located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. East Killara is a separate suburb and West Killara is a locality within Killara.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Killara

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
    Lane Cove National Park

    The Lane Cove National Park is a protected national park that is located within metropolitan Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The 670-hectare national park is situated about 10 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and features various vegetation types, such as, wet and dry sclerophyll forest, heathland, mangroves and tidal flats.

    2.8 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Eryldene, Gordon

    Eryldene is a heritage-listed former family residence and now house museum located at 17 McIntosh Street in the suburb of Gordon, on the Upper North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Hardy Wilson and built from 1913 to 1936 by Rudolph G. Ochs.

    1.3 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tulkiyan

    Tulkiyan is a heritage-listed former suburban residence and former house museum at 707 Pacific Highway, in the Sydney suburb of Gordon in the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Bertrand James Waterhouse of Waterhouse and Lake, and built by Mr Ochs; garden laid out by Mr Mottram.

    1.5 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chatswood Chase

    Chatswood Chase is a shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chatswood Oval

    Chatswood Oval is located south of the Chatswood railway station in Chatswood, a suburb on Sydney's Lower North Shore. It has four small pavilions and seating surrounding the oval.

    3.8 km · Australian cricket/rugby sports stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fullers Bridge

    Fullers Bridge, officially called the Fullers Creek Bridge, is a road bridge that carries Delhi Road to Millwood Avenue across the Lane Cove River, in Chatswood West, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The concrete beam bridge is located 9 kilometres northwest of the Sydney central business district and connects Chatswood to North Ryde as part of the A38.

    2.7 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Concourse, Chatswood

    The Concourse is a cultural centre in Chatswood, a suburb in Lower North Shore, Sydney. Opened in 2011, the complex includes facilities such as a civic pavilion, a concert hall, Chatswood Library, a theatre and other venues for cultural uses.

    3.5 km · building in Chatswood, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Westfield Chatswood

    Westfield Chatswood is a large indoor shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood in the Lower North Shore of Sydney.

    3.7 km · shopping centre in Chatswood, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Muston Park

    Muston Park is a 2-hectare urban park situated in the suburb of Chatswood, approximately 7 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.

    3.6 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Iolanthe

    Iolanthe is a heritage-listed former residence and post office located at 691 Pacific Highway in Gordon, a suburb on the Upper North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1870.

    1.3 km · heritage-listed building in New South Wales, 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.

Go there

Getting to Killara

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 20 km · Newcastle (NTL), 125 km
Stations
Chatswood railway station, 3.6 km · Gordon railway station, 1.6 km · Killara railway station, 400 m · Lindfield railway station, 900 m · Roseville railway station, 2.2 km
  • Williamtown → Killara
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · A$19–25
  • Gold Coast → Killara
    677 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · A$250–370
  • Toowoomba → Killara
    694 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · A$240–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Killara

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextWisemans Ferry is a nice pleasant picnic spot on the Hawkesbury.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Upper North Shore, 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    970 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,112 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,289 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,879 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,255 km

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

Around it

Next door to Killara

Killara is 12 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chatswoodsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Macquarie Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • Lindfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.1 km
  • Pymblesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3 km
  • Castle Covesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • East Lindfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km