Blackburn Lake Sanctuary, Melbourne

Name: Blackburn Lake Sanctuary
Address: Melbourne, Australia

#520 among attractions in Melbourne

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Blackburn Lake Sanctuary is an example of regenerated and remnant bushland in suburban Melbourne, Australia. It is located in the suburb of Blackburn. It is the most significant of the many parks in the City of Whitehorse, featuring areas of regenerated bushland and various walking tracks. ()

Established: 1889 (136 years ago)Elevation: 344 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 37°49'34"S, 145°9'43"E

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Whitehorse (Blackburn)Melbourne Australia

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Day trips

Blackburn Lake Sanctuary – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Box Hill Central, Wobbies World, Schwerkolt Cottage, Box Hill Cemetery.

2.2 miW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Box Hill Central, Melbourne
56 min walk • Box Hill Central Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre complex located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Box Hill in Victoria, Australia.
1.5 miSE
Amusement, Amusement park
Wobbies World, Melbourne
39 min walk • Wobbies World was an amusement park which operated from about 1981 to the late 1990s in the Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, Australia. The park consisted of many custom-built attractions, most slow moving and aimed at very young children.
2.9 miE
Museum, Garden, Park
Schwerkolt Cottage
73 min walk • Schwerkolt Cottage is a pioneer cottage built around 1880 at Mitcham, Victoria. This heritage site encompasses the original stone cottage, associated replicated outbuildings and a local history museum, surrounded by 2.25 hectares of gardens and bushland, and adjacent to Yarran Dheran bushland park.
1.5 miW
Cemetery
Box Hill Cemetery, Melbourne
39 min walk • Box Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Box Hill, Victoria in Australia. It currently occupies 12.5 ha.
3.2 miSE
Park
Koomba Park
82 min walk • Koomba Park is one of the parks comprising the Dandenong Valley Parklands in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It consists of 92 hectares of which 33 hectares are publicly accessible, and is bounded by Dandenong Creek, Boronia Road, EastLink, Mountain Highway and Burwood Highway in a clockwise direction.
2.3 miS
Street, Entertainment
Ramsay Street, Melbourne
60 min walk • Ramsay Street is the fictional cul-de-sac in which the characters of the Australian soap opera Neighbours live. The street is set in the equally fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough.
2 miW
City hall, Architecture
Box Hill Town Hall, Melbourne
51 min walk • The Box Hill Town Hall is a landmark civic building located on Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. Designed in the Neo-Grec style by architects JS Gawler and JCA Isbett, the town hall was built between 1934 and 1935.
2.1 miW
Area
Melbourne/Box Hill and Glen Waverley, Melbourne
53 min walk • Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 kilometres east of the city's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2016 census, Box Hill had a population of 11,395.
2.7 miNE
Cycling, Bike path
Mullum Mullum Creek Trail
70 min walk • The Mullum Mullum Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows Mullum Mullum Creek in the outer eastern suburbs in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2.7 miNE
Park, Nature and wildlife
Yarran Dheran
68 min walk • Yarran Dheran is an important riparian bushland park, located in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne in Mitcham on the border of Donvale, on the banks of the Mullum Mullum Creek.
2.3 miS
Church
Crossway Baptist Church, Melbourne
59 min walk • Crossway Baptist Church is one of Australia’s largest Baptist churches. It is an Evangelical multi-site megachurch, affiliated with Australian Baptist Ministries, headquartered in Burwood East, Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.