Alice River, Queensland
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| Alice River Townsville |
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| Population: | 1,359 |
| Postcode: | 4817 |
| Location: |
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| LGA: | Townsville |
| State District: | Thuringowa |
| Federal Division: | Kennedy |
Alice River is a Rural Acreage Village estate (suburb) in Townsville in Tropical Northern Queensland, Australia. The estate is also known as Rupertswood, the estate was named by the developer who was Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet of Rupertswood, after his ancestral home "Rupertswood" at Sunbury, Victoria, Australia.
There is a shop, an Australia Post mail box, a public phone box, and service station located on Hervey Range Road which is the main road passing the village.
Also, there are tennis courts, a cricket ground, community hall, Scout hall, pony club, playground area, half basketball court and barbecue, area which is floodlit at night along with public toilets and Rupertswood Rural Fire Brigade Station. All of these facilities are located in the large central park area which the acreage housing surrounds.
There are wide grassed access ways radiating out from the large park in the centre of the village designed for use by horses as the area was designed for horse enthusiasts and the house blocks are generally over one acre in area to allow for stables etc.
The Rupertswood Village consists of around 600 homes.
The actual Suburb of Alice River is much larger than the Rupertswood village but mainly consists of rural cattle properties.
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