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Town in Queensland, Australia

Marcoola

Marcoola is a coastal town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Marcoola
Marcoola · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Marcoola is a coastal town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Marcoola had a population of 3,355 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Marcoola

One place 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
    Mount Coolum National Park

    Mount Coolum is a hill in Mount Coolum National Park in a suburb of the same name in Queensland, Australia. Mount Coolum is located on the Sunshine Coast, 101 km north of Brisbane.

    2.5 km · national park in 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 Marcoola

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 2 km · Brisbane (BNE), 89 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 168 km
Stations
Sunshine Coast Airport, 2.3 km
  • Brisbane → Marcoola
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · A$13–18
  • Toowoomba → Marcoola
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · A$28–38
  • Gold Coast → Marcoola
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · A$23–31
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Marcoola

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 Marcoola. 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: Sunshine Coast, 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

    153 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,816 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,932 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,409 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,923 km

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

Around it

Next door to Marcoola

Marcoola is 8 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coolum Beachsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia5.6 km
  • Twin Waterssuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia5.7 km
  • Maroochydorestate electoral district of Queensland, Australia1.9 km
  • Mount Coolumsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2.2 km
  • Mudjimbasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia4 km
  • Pacific Paradiselocality in Queensland, Australia4.9 km