Kinlyside is a rural locality in the Australian Capital Territory.

[1] In 2013, it was set aside as a protected area that would remain undeveloped under an environmental offsets plan associated with increased development in Gungahlin.

[3] According to the ACT's Planning and Land Authority, the locality is named after George Kendall Kinlyside.

Underneath Kinlyside are acid volcanic rocks from the middle Silurian period.

The hills in the west of the locality are mostly green grey dacite, and the valley bottom is mostly purple andesite covered in part by alluvium.