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North Wahroonga

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

The place

North Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Wahroonga is located 23 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. Wahroonga is a separate suburb, to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Wahroonga

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
    Hornsby Water Clock

    The Hornsby Water Clock, titled Man, Time and the Environment, is a piece of kinetic sculpture, a decorative fountain and an occasionally functional clock in the Florence Street pedestrian mall in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. Unveiled in 1993, the sculpture was designed and engineered by Victor Cusack and constructed of bronze, stainless steel and glass by Victor and his foundry floor manager Rex Feakes.

    2.3 km · Kinetic sculpture in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Westfield Hornsby

    Westfield Hornsby is a large indoor and outdoor shopping centre in the suburb of Hornsby on the Upper North Shore of Sydney.

    2.3 km · shopping center in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Waitara

    Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Waitara is the Roman Catholic cathedral church of the Diocese of Broken Bay, located in Waitara, Sydney, New South Wales. Australia.

    2.5 km · Cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rofe Park

    Rofe Park Hornsby Heights is a bushland reserve in New South Wales, Australia. It has a heritage listing of local significance.

    3.4 km · park to the North of Hornsby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Berith Park

    Berith Park is an historic house located in Wahroonga, an upper north shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in the Federation Queen Anne style, the house was listed on the Ku-ring-gai Council local government heritage register in 2015 and is in a heritage conservation area.

    2 km · historic house in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Gilligaloola

    Gilligaloola is a heritage-listed residence located at 82-84 Pennant Hills Road, Normanhurst, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was designed by Norman Selfe who was involved in the design, and built in 1893.

    3.4 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Highlands, Wahroonga

    Highlands is a heritage-listed private residence located at 9 Highlands Avenue, Wahroonga, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was designed by John Horbury Hunt and built from 1890 to 1893.

    1.8 km · heritage-listed private residence · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Mount Wilga House

    Mount Wilga House is a heritage-listed former residence and rehabilitation hospital at 2a Manor Road, Hornsby in the Hornsby Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. Its design is attributed to Henry Marcus Clark and was built from 1913 to 1914.

    3.1 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Old Man's Valley Cemetery

    Old Man's Valley Cemetery is a heritage-listed former cemetery and now memorial landscape at Old Man's Valley, off Quarry Road, Hornsby in the Hornsby Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by and built by members of the Higgins family between 1879 and 1931 with the assistance of monumental masons.

    3.2 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Purulia

    Purulia is a heritage-listed residence at 16 Fox Valley Road in the Sydney suburb of Wahroonga in the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Hardy Wilson and built from 1912 to 1913.

    3.1 km · heritage-listed residence in Wahroonga, Sydney · 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.

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Getting to North Wahroonga

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 28 km · Newcastle (NTL), 120 km
Stations
Wahroonga railway station, 2 km · Normanhurst railway station, 3.5 km · Turramurra railway station, 3.5 km · Waitara railway station, 2.2 km · Warrawee railway station, 2.6 km
  • Williamtown → North Wahroonga
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · A$18–24
  • Gold Coast → North Wahroonga
    671 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$270–400
  • Toowoomba → North Wahroonga
    688 km · quickest by air, 5h 42m · A$260–390
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Wahroonga

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 North Wahroonga. 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.

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    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    WakatobiID

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

Around it

Next door to North Wahroonga

North Wahroonga is 20 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hornsbysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Normanhurstsuburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia4 km
  • Asquithsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2 km
  • North Turramurralocality in New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • Wahroongasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2 km
  • Waitaralocality in New South Wales, Australia2.1 km