Blockhouse Bay
Blockhouse Bay is a residential suburb in the south west of Auckland, in New Zealand's North Island.
Blockhouse Bay is a residential suburb in the south west of Auckland, in New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the northern coast of the Manukau Harbour, and is also close to the administrative boundary that existed between Auckland City and Waitakere City, two of the former four cities of what was the Auckland conurbation before amalgamation into Auckland Council.
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Worth seeing in and around Blockhouse Bay
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ōwairaka / Mount Albert
Ōwairaka / Mount Albert, also known as Te Ahi-kā-a-Rakataura, is a volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga which dominates the landscape of the Ōwairaka and Mount Albert suburbs of Auckland.
3 km · mountain in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Kiwitea Street
Kiwitea Street, also known as Freyberg Field, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Sandringham in Auckland, New Zealand. It is used for Association football matches and is the home stadium of both Auckland City FC and Central United.
3.2 km · multi-purpose stadium in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Puketāpapa
Puketāpapa, also known as Pukewīwī and Mount Roskill, is a volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the suburb that shares its English name, Mount Roskill.
2.5 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 04Plant & Food Research
Plant & Food Research was a New Zealand Crown Research Institute that is now part of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science. Its purpose was to enhance the value and productivity of New Zealand's horticultural, arable, seafood and food and beverage industries.
3.2 km · New Zealand research institute · Wikipedia - 05Oakley Creek waterfall
Oakley Creek is a creek in Auckland, New Zealand. While heavily human-modified, it has a number of important ecological features, such as having the only natural waterfall on the Auckland isthmus.
3.9 km · Waterfall in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 06LynnMall
LynnMall is a shopping centre in New Lynn, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in October 1963, it was New Zealand's first shopping mall.
2.3 km · shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 07Hillsborough Cemetery
Hillsborough Cemetery is a large cemetery located in the Auckland isthmus suburb of Hillsborough.
4 km · New Zealand cemetery in Auckland · Wikipedia - 08St Martin's at St Chad's
St Martin's at St Chad's is a former Anglican church located in Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand. It was the parish church for the suburb of Sandringham between 1915 and 2022.
3.2 km · church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 09Alberton
Alberton is a 19th-century house in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand, which is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. The house was built in the 1860s for Allan Kerr Taylor.
3.3 km · historic building in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 10Ferndale House
Ferndale House is a 19th-century house in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand, which is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category II structure. The house was built in the 1860s for the Garlick family, major figures in the Methodist community in Mount Albert, later becoming a hub for the Plunket Society in the 1940s and a community centre.
3.9 km · historic house in Mount Albert, New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blockhouse Bay
- Airports
- Auckland (AKL), 13 km
- Stations
- Avondale railway station, 2.4 km · Mount Albert railway station, 3.6 km · Fruitvale Road railway station, 3.8 km · New Lynn railway station, 2.4 km · St George's Street railway station, 1.7 km
- Wellington → Blockhouse Bay486 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · NZ$160–260
- Christchurch → Blockhouse Bay756 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · NZ$210–320
- Queenstown → Blockhouse BayTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Blockhouse Bay
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Blockhouse Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Auckland Transport (AT) website provides information on public transport, and allows you to select bus, train or ferry to plan an itinerary.
From Wikivoyage: Auckland/West Auckland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Blockhouse Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Blockhouse Bay
Blockhouse Bay is 9 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Avondalesuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.3 km
- Mount Albertsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.4 km
- Green Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.6 km
- Mount Roskillsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.1 km
- Owairakasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.7 km
- New Lynnsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.4 km