Norton Summit
Norton Summit is a town in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, located approximately 12 km east of the city of Adelaide.

Norton Summit is a town in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, located approximately 12 km east of the city of Adelaide. The town is named after Robert Norton, who arrived in South Australia shortly after its proclamation, and made the first recorded climb in the area in 1836.
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Worth seeing in and around Norton Summit
7 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.
- 01Mount Lofty
Mount Lofty AHD) is the highest point in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges. It is located about 15 km east of the Adelaide city centre, within the Cleland National Park in the Adelaide Hills area of South Australia.
5.8 km · mountain in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Horsnell Gully Conservation Park
Horsnell Gully Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Horsnell Gully located about 9 kilometres east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 2.3 kilometres southwest of Norton Summit. It contains several small gorges feeding the Adelaide Plains, a small seasonal waterfall and a number of walking trails including one that is part of the Heysen Trail.
2.3 km · conservation park in South Australia · Wikipedia - 03Mount Bonython
Mount Bonython above sea level) is one of two major peaks in the Adelaide Hills visible from Adelaide. The other, about a kilometre to the south and some 50 m higher, is Mount Lofty.
5.8 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia - 04Kensington Oval, Adelaide
The Kensington Oval is located on 344 The Parade, Kensington, South Australia. Now used primarily for cricket in South Australia, the venue was once Adelaide's premier athletics facility and known as Olympic Sports Field.
5.8 km · Cricket ground in the Kensington Park district of Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia - 05Hazelwood Park, Adelaide
Hazelwood Park is a park in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Hazelwood Park within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. First creek continues its journey from the hills through the park, the water flowing from Waterfall Gully and into Tusmore.
5.9 km · park in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Cleland National Park
Cleland National Park is a protected area in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, located about 22 kilometres south-east of Adelaide's city centre. It preserves a substantial expanse of natural bushland along the Adelaide Hills face, encompassing Mount Lofty Summit and Waterfall Gully.
6 km · national park in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Thorndon Park Reserve
Thorndon Park Reserve is a public park in the Adelaide suburb of Paradise, South Australia. It was originally the site of the Thorndon Park reservoir, which was completed in 1860.
5.4 km · park in Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Norton Summit
- Airports
- Adelaide (ADL), 17 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Norton Summit649 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$260–380
- Melbourne → Norton Summit644 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · A$240–360
- Sydney (Mascot) → Norton Summit1148 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · A$250–380
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No local-transport research exists yet for Norton Summit
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 Norton Summit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Norton Summit
Norton Summit is 11 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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