Sunshine North

Worth seeing in and around Sunshine North

7 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
   Brimbank Park

   Brimbank Park is a 328-hectare metropolitan park located in Keilor East, a north-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Established in 1976 on the banks of the Maribyrnong River, approximately 15 kilometres north–west of the Melbourne city centre, the park is managed by Parks Victoria.

   2.7 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Maribyrnong River Viaduct

   The Albion Viaduct, officially the Maribyrnong River Viaduct, and also known locally as the Quarter Mile Bridge, is a trestle viaduct across the Maribyrnong River and Maribyrnong River Trail that carries the Albion–Jacana railway line, located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is located near the E J Whitten Bridge, and is almost 400 metres long.

   900 m · railway bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tompsett Stadium

   Knights Stadium is an Australian association football stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the NPL Victoria competition, and previously in the National Soccer League.

   800 m · Australian soccer stadium · Wikipedia
4. 04
   H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens

   The H. V. McKay Memorial Gardens, originally known as the Sunshine Gardens, is an urban industrial garden and its adjacent church building and manse, that serve as memorials to Hugh Victor McKay, who founded the gardens and church, co-located at 118–122 Anderson Road in Sunshine, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1909 – on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people – by Australian industrialist, H. V. McKay located near the Sunshine Harvester operations for his eponymous firm, the gardens became a place of relaxation for workers in what became a company town.

   3.6 km · Heritage-listed public industrial garden and church in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong

   The Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong is a heritage-listed military installation and former munitions factory located at Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1910 and actively producing munitions for World War I and II, the factory was closed in 1994.

   2.8 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Maribyrnong VIC · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Old Iron Bridge, Keilor

   The Keilor Iron Bridge, also known as the Old Iron Bridge, Keilor and the Basket Bridge, is a wrought iron girder footbridge across the Maribyrnong River, between Keilor and Keilor East, in the City of Brimbank, located in the outer north-western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1868, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the bridge carried the Calder Highway until 1984, and was used for local road traffic following completion of the Calder Freeway bypass of Keilor.

   3.7 km · heritage-listed footbridge bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Highpoint Shopping Centre

   Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.

   3.8 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sunshine North

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 10 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 46 km

Stations

Ginifer, 3.3 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Sunshine North

  18 km · quickest by road, 48 min · A$2.5–3.5
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Sunshine North

  607 km · quickest by air, 4h 19m · A$180–270
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• Adelaide → Sunshine North

  641 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · A$190–290
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