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Spryfield

Spryfield is a community within the urban area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Spryfield
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The place

Spryfield is a community within the urban area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Spryfield

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
    Dalhousie University

    Dalhousie University is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and two satellite medical school campuses, in Saint John, New Brunswick and in Cape Breton. Dalhousie offers over 200 degree programs in 13 undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties.

    3.5 km · public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of King's College

    The University of King's College is a public liberal arts university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Established in 1789, it is the oldest chartered university in Canada, and the oldest English-language university in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom.

    3.4 km · oldest chartered university in Canada, in Halifax, Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint Mary's University

    Saint Mary's University is a public university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The school is best known for having nationally leading programs in business and chemistry.

    3.7 km · university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Prince of Wales Tower

    The Prince of Wales Tower is the oldest martello tower in North America and is located in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was built in 1796 by Captain James Straton and was used as a redoubt and a powder magazine.

    4 km · Martello Tower in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chocolate Lake

    Chocolate Lake is located in the Armdale neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The lake is surrounded by many private homes as well as a Best Western hotel and a city beach.

    3 km · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Colpitt Lake

    This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia.

    1.6 km · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kidston Lake

    Kidston Lake is a lake in the Spryfield area of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. An area along its eastern shore has been made into a municipal park, with artificial sand beaches and a lifeguard in the summer months.

    1.8 km · lake in Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Long Lake Provincial Park

    Long Lake Provincial Park is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was initiated in 1981 by then Premier John Buchanan after Halifax's water supply had been shifted from the Spruce Hill/Long Lake/Chain Lakes watershed to the Pockwock Lake watershed near Hammonds Plains.

    1.5 km · provincial park in Nova Scotia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dalhousie Arts Centre

    The Dalhousie Arts Centre, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contains a number of theatres, Dalhousie Art Gallery, classrooms, and a sculpture garden. It remains the premier performing arts venue in Halifax.

    3.7 km · performing arts building in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Atlantic School of Theology

    Atlantic School of Theology is a Christian public ecumenical university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university provides undergraduate and graduate level theological education.

    3.8 km · ecumenical university in Atlantic Canada · 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 Spryfield

Airports
Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 31 km
  • Quebec → Spryfield
    638 km · quickest by air, 7h 37m · C$190–290
  • Montréal → Spryfield
    789 km · quickest by air, 6h · C$200–320
  • St. John's → Spryfield
    902 km · quickest by air, 5h 51m · C$200–310
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Spryfield

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inGoing east on 104 takes you to Cape Breton or, alternatively, the ferry to Prince Edward Island.
  • Get aroundHalifax Transit operates two ferry routes that stop at .
  • Get aroundThe Halifax to Dartmouth ferry dates back to 1752.
  • Get aroundFor the same cost as bus fare, one can take the ferry back and forth between Dartmouth and Halifax, this is an excellent (and cheap) way to take in the skyline views, spot ships, and mingle with locals.
  • Get aroundThe Halifax-Woodside Ferry only runs Monday to Friday, there is little to do, and few places to go from the Woodside terminal.

From Wikivoyage: Halifax, 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

    419 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    895 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,913 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,950 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,000 km

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

Around it

Next door to Spryfield

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

  • Mulgrave Parkhuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada2.5 km
  • Armdalehuman settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada3 km
  • Deadmans Islandisland in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada2.4 km
  • South Endhuman settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada3.8 km
  • Cowie Hillhuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada1.1 km
  • Fairmounthuman settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada3.7 km