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Onkaparinga Hills

Onkaparinga Hills is a southern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia.

The place

Onkaparinga Hills is a southern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia. It covers an area of approximately 22 square kilometres . It has a population of 2534 people. It is a leafy suburb that includes parts of the Onkaparinga River National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Onkaparinga Hills

6 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
    Onkaparinga River National Park

    Onkaparinga River National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about 32 kilometres south of Adelaide city centre. It extends over the floodplain of the Onkaparinga River east of Main South Road.

    1.5 km · national park in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Clarendon Weir

    The Clarendon Weir is a concrete gravity weir across the Onkaparinga River, located in the suburb of Clarendon, approximately 20 kilometres south of the Adelaide city centre, in South Australia.

    8.6 km · dam in South Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Happy Valley Reservoir

    The Happy Valley Dam is an off-stream earth-filled embankment dam, located in Happy Valley, a southern suburb of Adelaide, in South Australia. Constructed in 1897, the resultant reservoir, the Happy Valley Reservoir was built to supply potable water to Adelaide when the total population of city was 315,200.

    8.4 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park

    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park is a protected area occupying land in the estuary of the Onkaparinga River in South Australia. The recreation park which was established in 1985 is approximately 32 km from Adelaide city centre.

    5.8 km · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Centro Colonnades

    Colonnades Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the suburb of Noarlunga Centre, on a large allotment of land with access from Goldsmith Drive, Beach Road and Burgess Road.

    4.9 km · shopping mall in Noarlunga Center, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hickinbotham Oval

    Hickinbotham Oval is an Australian rules football stadium in Noarlunga Downs, an outer-southern suburb of Adelaide. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide Football Club since 1995.

    5.2 km · Australian Football Stadium · 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 Onkaparinga Hills

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 22 km
Stations
Christie Downs railway station, 5.4 km · Hallett Cove Beach railway station, 8.7 km · Hallett Cove railway station, 9.9 km · Lonsdale railway station, 6.8 km · Noarlunga Centre Interchange, 5.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Onkaparinga Hills
    649 km · quickest by air, 5h 49m · A$260–390
  • Melbourne → Onkaparinga Hills
    645 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · A$250–370
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Onkaparinga Hills
    1152 km · quickest by air, 7h 20m · A$260–390
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Onkaparinga Hills

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 Onkaparinga Hills. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFor a day trip, you can rent a bicycle and take the Coast to Vines Rail Trail (see Do section) to get to McLaren Vale and Willunga.

From Wikivoyage: McLaren Vale, 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
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    136 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,176 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,781 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,702 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,655 km

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Around it

Next door to Onkaparinga Hills

Onkaparinga Hills is 25 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.