Botany Downs

Worth seeing in and around Botany Downs

7 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.

1. 01
   Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon Mountain

   Pigeon Mountain is a 58 m high volcanic cone and Tūpuna Maunga at Half Moon Bay, near Howick and Bucklands Beach, in Auckland, New Zealand. It is part of the Auckland volcanic field.

   2.6 km · hill in New Zealand · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Lloyd Elsmore Park

   Lloyd Elsmore Park is an urban park in East Auckland, New Zealand. The park is one of the largest venues for sports clubs in the city, and is home to both the Lloyd Elsmore Park Pool and Leisure Centre and Howick Historical Village.

   1.5 km · Urban park in East Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Waipaparoa / Howick Beach

   Waipaparoa / Howick Beach is a beach in the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located in Howick.

   2.9 km · beach in New Zealand · Wikipedia
4. 04
   All Saints Church, Howick

   All Saints’ Church is a historic Tudor Revival Anglican church located in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand. Constructed in 1847 to a designed from Frederick Thatcher and located on a site picked by Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, it is one of the oldest churches in Auckland and is registered as a category 1 historic building by Heritage New Zealand.

   2.1 km · church building in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Botany Town Centre

   Botany Town Centre is a large shopping mall and lifestyle centre located in Auckland, New Zealand. It has more than 200 stores spread across three complexes, including restaurants and entertainment buildings such as cinemas.

   2.7 km · shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Stockade Hill

   Stockade Hill, Howick was the location of a stockade built by British settlers to defend from indigenous Māori during the British colonisation of New Zealand. It is located on the main road into Howick, New Zealand.

   2.1 km · park and historic place in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Howick Historical Village

   Howick Historical Village is a living museum in Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand. It is a recreation of a New Zealand colonial village between the years 1840 and 1880, focusing on the history of the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps, and the local European and Māori history of Howick and Pakuranga and the surrounding areas of East Auckland.

   1.3 km · museum in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia

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Getting to Botany Downs

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Auckland (AKL), 16 km

• Wellington → Botany Downs

  487 km · quickest by air, 4h 23m · NZ$170–270
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  762 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · NZ$210–330
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