Dights Falls

Dights Falls is a scenic viewpoint in City of Yarra, Victoria. Dights Falls is situated nearby to the park Trenerry Crescent Reserve, as well as near Gray Street Reserve.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dights Falls and Victoria Park.

Dights Falls

Waterfall

Photo: Michaelschmatz, Public domain.

Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur.

Victoria Park

Park

Photo: Rulesfan, Public domain.

Victoria Park is an Australian rules football venue in the Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford. It is the historical home ground of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League, which played senior men's matches at the ground from 1892 until 1999 and retained the ground as an administrative and training base until 2004. Victoria Park is situated 390 metres west of Dights Falls.

Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne

Railway station

Photo: Thebusofdoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Victoria Park station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Mernda and Hurstbridge lines, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford in Victoria, Australia. Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne is situated 600 metres west of Dights Falls.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inner east and Westgarth.

Inner east

Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.

The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.

Westgarth

Neighborhood

Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.

Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia.

Jolimont

Neighborhood

Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation. Jolimont is situated 2½ km southwest of Dights Falls.

Dights Falls

Type: Scenic viewpoint
Category: tourism
Location: City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.79725° or 37° 47′ 50″ south

Longitude

145.00083° or 145° 0′ 3″ east

Open location code

4RJ76232+38

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4690264755

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=viewpoint

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