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Pennant Hills

Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Pennant Hills
Pennant Hills · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsby Shire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pennant Hills

5 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
    Sydney Australia Temple

    The Sydney Australia Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Carlingford, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Announced on 2 April 1980, by church president Spencer W. Kimball, it became the church's first temple in Australia and the 28th operating worldwide.

    4 km · temple of the LDS Church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Koala Park Sanctuary

    The Koala Park Sanctuary is a privately owned and run Australian wildlife park on 10 acres in West Pennant Hills, a northern suburb of Sydney. The park is known for its collection of koalas and other Australian animals and is set in a rainforest-like area.

    2 km · zoo in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Berowra Valley Regional Park

    The Berowra Valley Regional Park is in the Hornsby Shire in Sydney, Australia. Most of what was previously the regional park was placed in the Berowra Valley National Park in September 2012.

    3.5 km · regional park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.8 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ahimsa, Cheltenham

    Ahimsa is a heritage-listed residence and meditation meeting place located at 67 Cobran Road, Cheltenham, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney in Australia. It was designed by and built by Marie Byles during 1937.

    2 km · heritage-listed residence in Sydney, 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 Pennant Hills

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 25 km · Newcastle (NTL), 127 km
Stations
Epping railway station, 3.7 km · Normanhurst railway station, 3.7 km · Thornleigh railway station, 1.6 km · Pennant Hills railway station, 700 m · Cherrybrook metro station, 3.3 km
  • Williamtown → Pennant Hills
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · A$18–25
  • Gold Coast → Pennant Hills
    676 km · quickest by air, 5h 48m · A$260–390
  • Toowoomba → Pennant Hills
    692 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · A$260–380
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pennant 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 Pennant Hills. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe region is well serviced by public transport with trains, buses and ferries servicing the area.
  • Get inThere are regular ferries from Sydney and it makes a great way to get to places near the Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers.
  • Go nextTake the ferry from Woolwich Wharf to historic Cockatoo Island.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Macquarie Park, 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

    969 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,112 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,281 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,888 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,246 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pennant Hills

Pennant Hills is 19 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eppingsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • Normanhurstsuburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia3.2 km
  • South Turramurralocality in New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
  • Beecroftsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia900 m
  • North Eppingsuburb of Sydney, Australia3.1 km
  • West Pennant Hillslocality in New South Wales, Australia3.2 km