Boat ramps near Chatswood
We list 97 boat ramps within 25 km of Chatswood, NSW. Recorded facilities: 45 with toilets, 30 with car or trailer parking, 8 with a fish cleaning table.
Local government areas led by Northern Beaches, Canada Bay and Georges River share out the ramps near Chatswood, and Lansvale is the locality with the most listed ramps. The Georges River and the Parramatta River are the waterways with the most ramps recorded by Transport for NSW, and Sydney Harbour and Middle Harbour also appear in those records.
Altogether 97 ramps are listed within 25 km of the town centre. The nearest are unnamed ramps at Chatswood West, 2.8 km and 3.3 km away, followed by Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) (Killarney Heights) at 3.4 km and Burns Bay Reserve Boat Ramp (Riverview) at 3.9 km. Tunks Park (Cammeray) and Quiberie Park Boat Ramp (Lavender Bay) are named ramps further out.
Toilets are recorded at 45 ramps and car parking at 30, and a launch fee is payable at 9 ramps. Where a facility is not recorded, nothing is known either way.
Highlights
Most launching lanes
- Kyeemagh Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Port Botany - Foreshore Road 4 lanes
- Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 3 lanes
- Blaxland Road Boat Ramp 3 lanes
Most facilities recorded
- Berowra Waters Boat Ramp 12 facilities
- Bonna Point 8 facilities
- Georges River National Park Boat Ramp 8 facilities
- Jamieson Park 8 facilities
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 7 facilities
Facilities recorded at the ramp or mapped within 150 m.
Largest car parks
- Margaret St, Woolwich 27 spaces
- Fishermans Beach Long Reef Boat Ramp 25 spaces
- Middle Creek Reserve (no 1) 8 spaces
- Manly Dam - Section 1(Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association 5 spaces
- Manly Dam - Section 3 (Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association 2 spaces
Parking spaces recorded by Transport for NSW, the WA Department of Transport or Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Pontoon at the ramp
- Port Botany - Foreshore Road 4 lanes
- Kyeemagh Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 3 lanes
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 3 lanes
- Oatley Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
Usable at all tides
- Port Botany - Foreshore Road 4 lanes
- Kyeemagh Boat Ramp 4 lanes
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 3 lanes
- Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
- Oatley Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
Water access at all times (Transport for NSW) or not tide limited (Queensland TMR).
All listed ramps
| Boat ramp, Chatswood West (2) | 2.8 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Chatswood West (1) | 3.3 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) | 3.4 km | 3 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Burns Bay Reserve Boat Ramp | 3.9 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Tunks Park | 4.2 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Manns Pl, Manns Point, Greenwich | 5.1 km | 1 | No | Yes | Free |
| Margaret St, Woolwich | 5.2 km | 2 | No | Free | |
| Boat ramp, McMahons Point | 5.5 km | ||||
| Quiberie Park Boat Ramp | 5.8 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Birchgrove | 5.9 km | ||||
| The Spit Road Boat Ramp | 6.1 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Milsons Park Boat Ramp | 6.2 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Huntleys Point | 6.2 km | ||||
| Barney's Cut | 6.3 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Drummoyne | 6.4 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Balmain | 6.5 km | ||||
| Taplin Park | 6.6 km | 3 | Yes | Free | |
| Clontarf Reserve Boat Ramp | 6.6 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Manly Dam - Section 3 (Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association | 6.6 km | 1 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Boat ramp, Balmain East | 6.7 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Henley | 6.8 km | ||||
| Manly Dam - Section 1(Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association | 6.8 km | 1 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Boat ramp, Dawes Point | 7.0 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Tennyson Point | 7.0 km | ||||
| Battersea Park Passive Watercraft Access | 7.4 km | Free | |||
| Kendall Bay, Cabarita Park | 7.8 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Abbotsford | 7.9 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Rodd Point | 8.2 km | ||||
| Kissing Point Park Boat Ramp | 8.3 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Hen and Chicken Bay Boat Ramp | 8.4 km | Yes | |||
| Rozelle Public Pontoon | 8.4 km | Free | |||
| Uhrs Point Reserve Passive Craft Launch Facility | 8.7 km | Free | |||
| Bayview Park Boat Ramp | 8.7 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Hawthorn Canal Boat Ramp | 8.9 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Blaxland Road Boat Ramp | 9.0 km | 3 | No | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Canada Bay | 9.0 km | ||||
| Little Manly Cove | 9.7 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Sayonara Slipway | 9.8 km | Yes | Yes | ||
| Boat ramp, Double Bay | 10 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Wharf Road Boat Ramp | 10 km | 2 | No | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Manly | 11 km | Yes | Free | ||
| Lyne Park | 11 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Rose Bay | 11 km | ||||
| Middle Creek Reserve (no 1) | 12 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Boat ramp, Wheeler Heights | 12 km | ||||
| Silverwater Park | 12 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Jamieson Park | 13 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Fishermans Beach Long Reef Boat Ramp | 13 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Bilarong Reserve Boat Ramp | 14 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Ewen Park kayak launch pontoon | 14 km | Yes | Free | ||
| Boat ramp, Bondi Beach | 14 km | ||||
| Mackey Park Canoe Ramp | 14 km | ||||
| Tempe Basin | 15 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Mount Kuring-Gai | 15 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, North Narrabeen | 15 km | Yes | |||
| Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp | 16 km | 3 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Kyeemagh Boat Ramp | 17 km | 4 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Kyeemagh | 17 km | ||||
| Akuna Bay Boat Ramp | 18 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Port Botany - Foreshore Road | 18 km | 4 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Bayview | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Boat ramp, Newport (2) | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) | 19 km | 3 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Church Point Reserve Boat Ramp | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Boat ramp, Newport (1) | 20 km | ||||
| Fishermans Road Boat Ramp | 20 km | 1 | No | Yes | Free |
| Canoe entry point | 20 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Malabar | 20 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Clareville (2) | 21 km | Free | |||
| Kogarah Bay | 21 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Clareville (1) | 22 km | Yes | Yes | ||
| Clarendon Boat Ramp | 22 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Carss Park (1) | 22 km | ||||
| Oatley Bay Boat Ramp | 22 km | 3 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Berowra Waters Boat Ramp | 23 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Dover Park (Blakehurst) Boat Ramp | 23 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Carss Park (2) | 23 km | ||||
| Connells Bay Boat Ramp (Donnelly Park) | 23 km | 3 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Avalon Beach | 23 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Connells Point | 23 km | Yes | |||
| Lansvale Canoe/Kayak Launch Site - Off Strong Park | 23 km | ||||
| Rabaul Road | 23 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Sans Souci | 23 km | Yes | |||
| Floyd Bay Boat Ramp | 23 km | 2 | No | Free | |
| Bonna Point | 23 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Chipping Norton Lake, Lansvale | 24 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Sandringham | 24 km | Yes | |||
| Chipping Norton Lake - Bradbury Wharf Boat Ramp (Hoy Park) | 24 km | 1 | No | Yes | Free |
| Tom Uglys Bridge Boat Ramp (Horse Rock Point) | 24 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Chipping Norton Lake - Angle Park Boat Ramp | 24 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Davy Robinson Reserve Boat Ramp | 25 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Oyster Bay Boat Ramp | 25 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Scylla Bay Boat Ramp | 25 km | 1 | No | Yes | Free |
| Holts Point Place Boat Ramp | 25 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Georges River National Park Boat Ramp | 25 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Boat ramp, Palm Beach | 25 km | ||||
| Sand Point Boat Ramp | 25 km | 2 | Yes | Free |
Blank cells: not recorded in the source data. Distances are straight-line from the town centre, up to 25 km. Click a column heading to sort.
Ramps near the town by local government area
| Northern Beaches | 23 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Canada Bay | 12 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Georges River | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Inner West | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Sutherland | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Fairfield | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Hornsby | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Ryde | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Woollahra | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bayside | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Canterbury-Bankstown | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Hunters Hill | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lane Cove | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Liverpool | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Parramatta | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Randwick | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sydney | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mosman | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Waverley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Click a column heading to sort. Counts are ramps with the item recorded in the source data.
Questions and answers
How many boat ramps are there near Chatswood?
Boat Ramp Spots lists 97 boat ramps within 25 km of Chatswood: 45 with toilets recorded and 30 with parking recorded.
What is the nearest boat ramp to Chatswood?
Boat ramp, Chatswood West (2), about 2.8 km in a straight line from the town centre.
Which boat ramp near Chatswood has the most launching lanes?
2 ramps share the most launching lanes recorded (4): Kyeemagh Boat Ramp and Port Botany - Foreshore Road.
Which boat ramps near Chatswood have a pontoon?
A pontoon at the ramp is recorded at 24 ramps, including Port Botany - Foreshore Road, Kyeemagh Boat Ramp and Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve).
Can I launch at any tide near Chatswood?
State records list 35 ramps as usable at all tides, including Port Botany - Foreshore Road, Kyeemagh Boat Ramp and Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge). 3 ramps are recorded as tide limited. For the other ramps the tide range is not recorded: check tides before you go.
Do I have to pay to launch a boat near Chatswood?
A launch fee is recorded at 9 ramps and free launching at 50 ramps. For the other ramps no fee information is recorded.
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