Lower Plenty

Worth seeing in and around Lower Plenty

4 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
   Heide Museum of Modern Art

   The Heide Museum of Modern Art, also known as Heide, is an art museum in Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum exhibits modern and contemporary art across three buildings and is set within sixteen acres of heritage-listed gardens and a sculpture park.

   3.9 km · art museum in Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Banyule

   The Banyule Homestead, more commonly known as Banyule, is a heritage-listed homestead located at 60 Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Built in 1846 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the homestead was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 9 October 1974 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance; and was also added to the non-statutory and now defunct Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978, and a non-statutory local government list on an unknown date.

   3.2 km · heritage-listed homestead in Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   The Nichols House

   The Nichols House is a residential building in Melbourne designed by the Australian architect Kevin Borland. The construction was completed in 1973 and awarded the OPCD Bronze Medal for The Age/RAIA House of the Year together with Max May’s Rattle House at Harkaway in 1974.

   2.8 km · house in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Westerfolds Park

   Westerfolds Park is an urban park, part of the Yarra Valley Parklands, situated in Templestowe, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Westerfolds is classified as a metropolitan park and conserves riparian habitat within the Melbourne urban environment.

   1.8 km · park in Templestowe, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lower Plenty

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 25 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 66 km

Stations

Watsonia, 3.8 km · Eltham, 3.6 km · Greensborough, 3.4 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Lower Plenty

  15 km · quickest by road, 45 min · A$2.5–3.5
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Lower Plenty

  603 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · A$210–320
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• Adelaide → Lower Plenty

  662 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · A$230–340
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