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Portland Estates

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Portland Estates

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
    Halifax Nova Scotia Temple

    Temple of the LDS Church

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lake Banook

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Morris Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bissett Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Maynard Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oat Hill Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Settle Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Topsail Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Greenvale School

    School building in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Lemont Lake

    Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada

    2.8 km · 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 Portland Estates

Airports
Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 24 km
Stations
Shearwater Heliport, 3.3 km
  • Quebec → Portland Estates
    643 km · quickest by air, 7h 17m · C$190–300
  • Montréal → Portland Estates
    796 km · quickest by air, 5h 40m · C$210–330
  • St. John's → Portland Estates
    892 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · C$210–320
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Portland Estates

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundHalifax Transit operates the Harbour Ferry service between Halifax and Dartmouth.
  • Get aroundThe is the more convenient of the two Dartmouth ferry terminals, downtown along Alderney Drive near the foot of Queen Street.

From Wikivoyage: Dartmouth (Nova Scotia), 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
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    428 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    904 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,919 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,956 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,006 km

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

Around it

Next door to Portland Estates

Portland Estates is 5 km from Halifax, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cole Harboursuburban community in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada2.4 km
  • Shearwaterneighbourhood in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada3.1 km
  • Downtown Dartmouthneighbourhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada3.9 km