Boat ramps near Brisbane
We list 70 boat ramps within 25 km of Brisbane, QLD. Recorded facilities: 21 with toilets, 44 with car or trailer parking.
At 1.4 km from the mapped town centre, South Brisbane, Riverside Drive is the closest named ramp, and an unnamed ramp at Kangaroo Point sits at the same distance. Further unnamed ramps at East Brisbane and Kelvin Grove follow, then South Brisbane Sailing Club Boat Ramp (Toowong), Newstead, Ross Street and Albion, Beaumont Street.
The page covers 70 ramps within 25 km. The Brisbane council area holds 53 of them, with Moreton Bay (8), Redland (6) and Ipswich (3) making up the rest. Nudgee Beach and Shorncliffe lead the localities by listed ramps, followed by Griffin, Manly, Ransome, Toowong and Wellington Point.
Car parking is recorded at 44 ramps and toilets at 21. Where the records are silent on a facility, nothing is known either way. Strathpine, Logan City and Cleveland have town pages of their own.
Highlights
Most launching lanes
- Nudgee Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Whyte Island boat ramp 4 lanes
- Shorncliffe, Sinbad Street 4 lanes
- Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent 4 lanes
- Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street 4 lanes
Most facilities recorded
- Wellington Point, Main Road 9 facilities
- Indooroopilly, Meiers Road 8 facilities
- Shorncliffe, Jetty Street 8 facilities
- Boat ramp, Kangaroo Point 7 facilities
- Albion, Beaumont Street 7 facilities
Facilities recorded at the ramp or mapped within 150 m.
Largest car parks
- Shorncliffe, Sinbad Street 170 spaces
- Manly Boat Harbour, South 115 spaces
- Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent 112 spaces
- Wellington Point, Main Road 70 spaces
- Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street 60 spaces
Parking spaces recorded by Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Pontoon at the ramp
- Nudgee Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent 4 lanes
- Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street 4 lanes
- Manly Boat Harbour, South 3 lanes
- Colmslie Boat Ramp 2 lanes
Sorted by launching lanes, then distance.
Usable at all tides
- Nudgee Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Whyte Island boat ramp 4 lanes
- Shorncliffe, Sinbad Street 4 lanes
- Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent 4 lanes
- Manly Boat Harbour, South 3 lanes
Not tide limited (Queensland TMR). Sorted by launching lanes, then distance.
All listed ramps
| South Brisbane, Riverside Drive | 1.4 km | 2 | No | 15 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Kangaroo Point | 1.4 km | Yes | Yes | Map | ||||
| Boat ramp, East Brisbane (1) | 2.9 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Kelvin Grove | 3.1 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, East Brisbane (2) | 3.3 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| South Brisbane Sailing Club Boat Ramp | 3.4 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Newstead | 3.6 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Toowong (2) | 3.6 km | Map | ||||||
| Newstead, Ross Street | 3.7 km | 2 | No | Yes | Tide limited | Map | ||
| Albion, Beaumont Street | 4.0 km | 1 | No | 7 spaces | Yes | Tide limited | Map | |
| Boat ramp, Fairfield | 4.1 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Toowong (1) | 4.4 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Annerley | 5.5 km | Map | ||||||
| Indooroopilly, Meiers Road | 5.6 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Tide limited | Map | |
| Colmslie Boat Ramp | 6.3 km | 2 | No | 21 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Boat ramp, Tennyson | 6.8 km | Yes | Yes | Map | ||||
| Boat ramp, Gaythorne | 6.9 km | Map | ||||||
| Bulimba Creek Canoe Trail (1) | 8.3 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Corinda | 9.0 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Tingalpa | 9.0 km | Yes | Yes | Map | ||||
| Bulimba Creek Canoe Trail (2) | 9.4 km | Map | ||||||
| Fig Tree Pocket, Fig Tree Pocket Road | 9.5 km | 1 | No | 5 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Fleming Road Canoe Ramp | 10 km | Map | ||||||
| Hemmant Boat Ramp | 11 km | 1 | No | 5 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Boat ramp, Oxley | 11 km | Map | ||||||
| Jindalee Boat Ramp | 12 km | 2 | Yes | 13 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Pinkenba, Kirra Street | 13 km | 1 | No | 26 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Nudgee Boat Ramp | 14 km | 4 | Yes | 46 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Wynnum, Glenora Street | 15 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Nudgee Beach (3) | 15 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Nudgee Beach (2) | 15 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Deagon | 16 km | Free | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Nudgee Beach (4) | 16 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Nudgee Beach (1) | 16 km | Yes | Yes | Map | ||||
| Whyte Island boat ramp | 16 km | 4 | No | 30 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Shorncliffe, Sinbad Street | 16 km | 4 | No | 170 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Ransome | 16 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Chadwell Street Canoe Ramp RA6010 | 16 km | Map | ||||||
| Multihull Marine | 16 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Shorncliffe | 16 km | Map | ||||||
| Manly Boat Harbour, South | 16 km | 3 | Yes | 115 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Curlew Street canoe launching ramp | 16 km | Map | ||||||
| Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent | 16 km | 4 | No | 112 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Boat ramp, Manly (1) | 17 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Manly (2) | 17 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Shorncliffe, Yundah Street | 17 km | 1 | Yes | Tide limited | Map | |||
| Shorncliffe, Jetty Street | 17 km | 2 | Yes | 6 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Lota, Cobar Street | 17 km | 1 | No | Tide limited | Map | |||
| Boat ramp, Thorneside | 17 km | Map | ||||||
| Thorneside, Helen Street | 17 km | 1 | Yes | 11 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Bald Hills, Barungwarra Reserve | 19 km | 1 | No | Yes | All tides | Map | ||
| Strathpine, Learmonth Street | 19 km | 1 | Yes | 5 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Karalee, Park Road | 19 km | 1 | No | 6 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Brighton | 19 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Bald Hills, Wyampa Road | 19 km | 2 | Yes | 55 spaces | Yes | All tides | Map | |
| Goodna Boat Ramp | 19 km | 1 | No | Yes | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Mount Crosby | 20 km | Map | ||||||
| Karana Downs, Caringal Drive | 20 km | 1 | No | 15 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Griffin, Dohles Rocks Road | 21 km | 2 | Yes | 23 spaces | All tides | Map | ||
| Boat ramp, Griffin | 21 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Wellington Point (1) | 21 km | Yes | Yes | Map | ||||
| Blue Topping's Ramp | 21 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Wellington Point, Main Road | 21 km | 2 | Yes | 70 spaces | Yes | Tide limited | Map | |
| Boat ramp, Lawnton | 22 km | Yes | Map | |||||
| Hilliards Creek, Bligh St | 22 km | 1 | Map | |||||
| Boat ramp, Wellington Point (2) | 23 km | Map | ||||||
| Boat ramp, Clontarf | 24 km | Map | ||||||
| Chuwar, Mount Crosby Road | 24 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Tide limited | Map | ||
| Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street | 24 km | 4 | Yes | 60 spaces | Yes | Tide limited | Map | |
| light craft | 24 km | 3 | Yes | 13 spaces | Tide limited | Map |
Blank cells: not recorded in the source data. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Brisbane, up to 25 km. Parking spaces are counted by Transport for NSW, the WA Department of Transport or Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads; "Yes" means parking is recorded without a count. Tides: water access at all times or tide limited, as recorded by Transport for NSW or Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads. Map links open OpenStreetMap at the ramp. Click a column heading to sort.
Ramps near Brisbane by local government area
| Brisbane | 53 | 13 | 31 | 12 | 10 | 16 |
| Moreton Bay | 8 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Redland | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ipswich | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Click a column heading to sort. Counts are ramps with the item recorded in the source data: a 0 means nothing is recorded for that row, not that the item is missing on the ground.
Boat ramps near other towns
- Logan City (21 km away)
- Cleveland (25 km away)
- Ipswich (31 km away)
- Dayboro (36 km away)
- Fernvale (37 km away)
Questions and answers
How many boat ramps are there near Brisbane?
Boat Ramp Spots lists 70 boat ramps within 25 km of Brisbane: 21 with toilets recorded and 44 with parking recorded.
What is the nearest boat ramp to Brisbane?
South Brisbane, Riverside Drive, about 1.4 km in a straight line from the centre of Brisbane.
Which boat ramp near Brisbane has the most launching lanes?
5 ramps share the most launching lanes recorded (4): Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street; Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent; Nudgee Boat Ramp, among others.
Which boat ramps near Brisbane have a pontoon?
A pontoon at the ramp is recorded at 12 ramps, including Clontarf, Pelican Park, Thomas Street; Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent; Nudgee Boat Ramp.
Can I launch at any tide near Brisbane?
Yes, at 21 ramps within 25 km of Brisbane: state records list them as usable at all tides (including Manly Boat Harbour, Fairlead Crescent; Nudgee Boat Ramp; Shorncliffe, Sinbad Street). 9 ramps are recorded as tide limited. For the other 40 ramps the tide range is not recorded. Source: tide limits recorded by Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads; check tides before you go.
Do I have to pay to launch a boat near Brisbane?
No launch fee is recorded at any listed ramp within 25 km of Brisbane. Free launching is recorded at 1 ramp: Boat ramp, Deagon. For the other 69 ramps no fee information is recorded. Fee information comes from the fee tag on OpenStreetMap; check with the ramp manager.
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