Boat ramps near Hornsby
We list 75 boat ramps within 25 km of Hornsby, NSW. Recorded facilities: 37 with toilets, 24 with car or trailer parking.
Near Hornsby, the Parramatta River has the most ramps recorded by Transport for NSW, ahead of Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury River, with Middle Harbour, Manly Dam and Narrabeen Lagoon also appearing in those records.
The 25 km limit takes in 75 ramps, none closer than 7.0 km: an unnamed ramp at Mount Kuring-Gai comes first, then Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp (Bobbin Head) at 7.7 km. Canoe entry point (Berrilee) is another named ramp among the nearer ones. Hornsby is also the name of a local government area, which holds 8 of the ramps on this page.
Records show toilets at 37 ramps, car parking at 24 and a launch fee payable at 8, while water access is noted as available at all times for 25 ramps. A missing entry in the facility records means the facility is unknown, not that it is absent.
Highlights
Most launching lanes
- Parsley Bay, Brooklyn 4 lanes
- Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 3 lanes
- Blaxland Road Boat Ramp 3 lanes
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 3 lanes
Most facilities recorded
- Berowra Waters Boat Ramp 12 facilities
- Jamieson Park 8 facilities
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 7 facilities
- Bilarong Reserve Boat Ramp 7 facilities
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 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
- Parsley Bay, Brooklyn 4 lanes
- Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) 3 lanes
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 3 lanes
- Taplin Park 3 lanes
- Blaxland Road Boat Ramp 3 lanes
Usable at all tides
- Parsley Bay, Brooklyn 4 lanes
- Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) 3 lanes
- Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp 3 lanes
- Taplin Park 3 lanes
- Blaxland Road Boat Ramp 3 lanes
Water access at all times (Transport for NSW) or not tide limited (Queensland TMR).
All listed ramps
| Boat ramp, Mount Kuring-Gai | 7.0 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp | 7.7 km | 3 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Canoe entry point | 8.5 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Chatswood West (1) | 11 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Chatswood West (2) | 11 km | ||||
| Berowra Waters Boat Ramp | 12 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge) | 13 km | 3 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Wharf Road Boat Ramp | 13 km | 2 | No | Free | |
| Blaxland Road Boat Ramp | 13 km | 3 | No | Free | |
| Uhrs Point Reserve Passive Craft Launch Facility | 13 km | Free | |||
| Burns Bay Reserve Boat Ramp | 14 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Kissing Point Park Boat Ramp | 14 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Akuna Bay Boat Ramp | 14 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Silverwater Park | 14 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Tennyson Point | 15 km | ||||
| Kendall Bay, Cabarita Park | 15 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Henley | 15 km | ||||
| Middle Creek Reserve (no 1) | 16 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Battersea Park Passive Watercraft Access | 16 km | Free | |||
| Manly Dam - Section 3 (Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association | 16 km | 1 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Boat ramp, Wheeler Heights | 16 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Huntleys Point | 16 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Abbotsford | 16 km | ||||
| Manly Dam - Section 1(Part of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park) - Non motorised boats only unless authorised by Waterskiing Association | 17 km | 1 | Yes | Fee payable | |
| Margaret St, Woolwich | 17 km | 2 | No | Free | |
| Taplin Park | 17 km | 3 | Yes | Free | |
| Tunks Park | 17 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Bayview Park Boat Ramp | 17 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Bilarong Reserve Boat Ramp | 17 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Manns Pl, Manns Point, Greenwich | 17 km | 1 | No | Yes | Free |
| Hen and Chicken Bay Boat Ramp | 17 km | Yes | |||
| Jamieson Park | 17 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Boat ramp, Canada Bay | 17 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Drummoyne | 17 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Birchgrove | 17 km | ||||
| The Spit Road Boat Ramp | 18 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Balmain | 18 km | ||||
| Clontarf Reserve Boat Ramp | 18 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, McMahons Point | 18 km | ||||
| Church Point Reserve Boat Ramp | 18 km | Yes | |||
| Quiberie Park Boat Ramp | 18 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Rodd Point | 18 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, North Narrabeen | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Barney's Cut | 19 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Balmain East | 19 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Bayview | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Milsons Park Boat Ramp | 19 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Newport (2) | 19 km | Yes | |||
| Hawthorn Canal Boat Ramp | 19 km | 1 | No | Free | |
| Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve) | 19 km | 3 | Yes | Yes | Fee payable |
| Fishermans Beach Long Reef Boat Ramp | 20 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Boat ramp, Newport (1) | 20 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Dawes Point | 20 km | ||||
| Rozelle Public Pontoon | 20 km | Free | |||
| Kangaroo Point Boat Ramp | 20 km | Yes | |||
| Boat ramp, Clareville (2) | 21 km | Free | |||
| Little Manly Cove | 21 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Boat ramp, Brooklyn | 21 km | Yes | |||
| Deerubbun Reserve | 21 km | 2 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Boat ramp, Clareville (1) | 21 km | Yes | Yes | ||
| Parsley Bay, Brooklyn | 21 km | 4 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Manly | 21 km | Yes | Free | ||
| Sayonara Slipway | 23 km | Yes | Yes | ||
| Patonga Creek Boat Ramp | 23 km | 1 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Milson Island | 23 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Avalon Beach | 23 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Double Bay | 23 km | Yes | Yes | Free | |
| Sand Point Boat Ramp | 23 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Palm Beach | 23 km | ||||
| Boat ramp, Cogra Bay | 23 km | ||||
| Ewen Park kayak launch pontoon | 24 km | Yes | Free | ||
| Patonga Beach | 24 km | 1 | Yes | Yes | Free |
| Lyne Park | 24 km | 2 | Yes | Free | |
| Boat ramp, Rose Bay | 24 km | ||||
| Mackey Park Canoe Ramp | 25 km |
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 |
| Hornsby | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Inner West | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Central Coast | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ryde | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Woollahra | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hunters Hill | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lane Cove | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Parramatta | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Sydney | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Canterbury-Bankstown | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mosman | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 Hornsby?
Boat Ramp Spots lists 75 boat ramps within 25 km of Hornsby: 37 with toilets recorded and 24 with parking recorded.
What is the nearest boat ramp to Hornsby?
Boat ramp, Mount Kuring-Gai, about 7.0 km in a straight line from the town centre.
Which boat ramp near Hornsby has the most launching lanes?
Parsley Bay, Brooklyn, with 4 launching lanes recorded.
Which boat ramps near Hornsby have a pontoon?
A pontoon at the ramp is recorded at 16 ramps, including Parsley Bay, Brooklyn; Bayview Boat Ramp (Rowland Reserve); Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge).
Can I launch at any tide near Hornsby?
State records list 25 ramps as usable at all tides, including Parsley Bay, Brooklyn; Davidson Park - Garigal National Park (Roseville Bridge); Apple Tree Bay Boat Ramp. 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 Hornsby?
A launch fee is recorded at 8 ramps and free launching at 35 ramps. For the other ramps no fee information is recorded.
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