Stony Rise
Stony Rise is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Devonport in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania, Australia.
Stony Rise is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Devonport in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania, Australia. The locality is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the town of Devonport. The 2021 census recorded a population of 728 for the state suburb of Stony Rise.
It is primarily a residential suburb of Devonport.
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Worth seeing in and around Stony Rise
2 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.
- 01Devonport Oval
Devonport Oval is an Australian rules football, cricket and athletics stadium in Devonport, Tasmania. It is the home stadium for the Devonport Football Club in the Tasmanian State League and for the Devonport Cricket Club in the NWTCA competition.
3.7 km · sports stadium in Tasmania · Wikipedia - 02Don River Railway
The Don River Railway is a heritage railway and museum in Don, Devonport, Tasmania. It operates a service from Don to Coles Beach.
1.1 km · heritage railway and museum in Devonport, Tasmania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stony Rise
- Airports
- Hobart (HBA), 208 km
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Stony Rise207 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · A$33–44
- Geelong/Melbourne → Stony Rise390 km · quickest by road, 12h 46m · A$65–85
- Melbourne → Stony Rise394 km · quickest by road, 12h 41m · A$65–85
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stony Rise
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 Stony Rise. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDevonport is the Tasmanian arrival port for the Spirit of Tasmania passenger ferries from the mainland.
- Get inDuring peak periods there are additional daytime crossings, departing at 9AM and arriving the same day at 6PM, and the overnight ferry going from 9PM until 6AM.
- Get inThe ferry terminal is in East Devonport, directly across the river from the town centre.
- Get inDuring daytime (M-F 7AM-5:30PM; Sa 9AM-5PM) the little Torquay Ferry crosses the river directly from dock to city centre ($3, Feb 2019).
- Get aroundDevonport is, beside the ferry terminus, a small country town.
From Wikivoyage: Devonport, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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