Lane Cove
Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Lane Cove Council. Lane Cove West and Lane Cove North are separate suburbs.
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Worth seeing in and around Lane Cove
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.
- 01Snapper Island
Snapper Island is a 1.65-hectare island in Sydney Harbour, Australia. It lies in the main channel of the western section of the harbour, upstream of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to the Sydney suburb of Drummoyne.
3.9 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Drummoyne NSW · Wikipedia - 02Gladesville Bridge
Gladesville Bridge is a heritage-listed concrete arch road bridge that carries Victoria Road over the Parramatta River, linking the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Huntleys Point, in the local government areas of Canada Bay and Hunter's Hill respectively, in New South Wales, Australia. Despite its name, the bridge is not in Gladesville.
3.4 km · bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Birchgrove Park
Birchgrove Park is an urban park and sports ground located in Birchgrove, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour. It is also the location of Birchgrove Oval, the headquarters of the Sydney Cricket Club from 1897 to 1947 and a historic rugby league football ground which served as the original home of the Balmain Tigers club.
3.8 km · park and cricket field in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Boronia Park
The Boronia Park, or the Boronia Park Reserve, is a waterfront parkland and nature reserve wholly within the suburb of Hunters Hill, in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The park dates back to pre-colonial New South Wales, with original and widely diverse flora and fauna:...Boronia Park is the best place to gain an idea of Hunter's Hill's pre-European landscape, as it has the largest intact stretch of bushland.
2.7 km · protected area in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 05MV Cape Don
MV Cape Don is a museum and training ship and former research vessel and lighthouse tender in Waverton, New South Wales, Australia. She is the only remaining Australian lighthouse supply ship and is listed on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels.
3.7 km · lighthouse tender launched in 1963 · Wikipedia - 06Vienna, Hunters Hill
Vienna is a heritage-listed former house and now museum at 38–40 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1871 and is known as Curan Curan, Carrum Carrum, Subiaco and Vienna Cottage.
2.4 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 07St Thomas' Church of North Sydney
St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney, is a large suburban church in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, located in North Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It is listed on the local government heritage register and the Register of the National Estate.
3.8 km · church in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08St Joseph's College
St Joseph's College is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1881, Joeys has approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including over 550 boarders, making it the largest all boys' boarding school in Australia, and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
3.3 km · boys secondary school in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Tarban Creek Bridge
The Tarban Creek Bridge is a prestressed concrete arch bridge that carries the Burns Bay Road across the Tarban Creek, located west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is situated between the Gladesville Bridge and the Fig Tree Bridge, being immediately to the north of Gladesville Bridge.
3.2 km · bridge in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Fitzroy Dock
Fitzroy Dock is a heritage-listed dockyard at the former Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.
3.5 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Cockatoo Island NSW · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lane Cove
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 14 km · Newcastle (NTL), 129 km
- Stations
- Chatswood railway station, 2.4 km · Spectacle Island, 3.6 km · Artarmon railway station, 1.7 km · St Leonards railway station, 2.4 km · Roseville railway station, 3.7 km
- Williamtown → Lane Cove128 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · A$20–26
- Gold Coast → Lane Cove682 km · quickest by air, 5h 18m · A$240–350
- Toowoomba → Lane Cove700 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · A$230–350
- 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 Lane Cove
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 Lane Cove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTo some islands you can catch a scheduled ferry service, either on either Sydney Ferries or Captain Cook/Matilda Ferries.
- Get inYou can also catch a water taxi, or impose on a friend with a boat to drop you off.
- Get inIf you catch a Sydney Ferry, it is part of the ferry network.
- Get inMatilda/Captain Cook ferries, and they don't accept Opal, and only sell return tickets to Circular Quay or Darling Harbour ($17/$15) The do offer bundles with other ferry trips, such as their all day explorer ticket ($42/$26).
- Get inWater taxi fares start around $50 and go upwards to around $200 which usually includes the first few passengers.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Harbour Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Lane Cove
Lane Cove is 7 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Chatswoodsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
- BalmainSuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
- Longuevillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km
- Balmain Eastsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
- Greenwichsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.2 km
- Wollstonecraftsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.7 km