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West Pennant Hills

West Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Hills District of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

West Pennant Hills
West Pennant Hills · Wikimedia Commons
The place

West Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Hills District of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. West Pennant Hills is located 21 km northwest of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Pennant Hills

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
    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.

    3.4 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.

    1.2 km · zoo in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Balaka Falls

    Balaka Falls is a small tiered–cascade waterfall situated in the Greater Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Hunts Creek in Yarralumla Wildlife Sanctuary in the City of Parramatta and is surrounded by suburbia, making it accessible for nearby residential areas.

    3.4 km · waterfall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gilroy College

    Gilroy Catholic College is a Roman Catholic comprehensive co-educational secondary day school located in Castle Hill, in the Hills District of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The College provides a Catholic and general education for students from Year 7 through to Year 12 and is administered by the Catholic Education Office of the Diocese of Parramatta.

    3.6 km · Catholic co-educational secondary day school in Castle Hill, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Carlingford Court

    HomeCo. Carlingford Court is a shopping centre in the suburb of Carlingford in Northern Sydney.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Paul's Anglican Church, Castle Hill

    St Paul's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed Anglican former church building located at 221 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill, The Hills Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as St Paul's Anglican Church and St Paul's Church.

    2.7 km · church building in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Third Government Farm

    The Third Government Farm is a heritage-listed garden at Gilbert Road, near Old Northern Road, Castle Hill, The Hills Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1801.

    3.9 km · garden at New South Wales, 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.

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Getting to West Pennant Hills

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 26 km · Newcastle (NTL), 129 km
Stations
Castle Hill metro station, 3.1 km · Carlingford railway station, 4 km · Pennant Hills railway station, 3.7 km · Cherrybrook metro station, 1.3 km · Beecroft railway station, 3 km
  • Williamtown → West Pennant Hills
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · A$19–25
  • Gold Coast → West Pennant Hills
    678 km · quickest by air, 5h 48m · A$260–390
  • Toowoomba → West Pennant Hills
    693 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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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West 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 West 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

    971 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,111 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,278 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,889 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,244 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Pennant Hills

West Pennant Hills is 21 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Baulkham Hillssuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
  • Castle Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km
  • Carlingfordsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Pennant Hillssuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
  • Beecroftsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Cherrybrooksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km