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Worth seeing in and around Burnside

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.

  1. 01
    University of Canterbury

    The University of Canterbury is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

    3.3 km · public research university in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House

    Kate Sheppard House is a historic building and museum on Clyde Road in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam, bordering the University of Canterbury. It was the home of Kate Sheppard from 1888 to 1902, the key years where she led the campaign for women's suffrage.

    3.6 km · building in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Riccarton Park Racecourse

    Riccarton Park Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch city area in New Zealand.

    3.5 km · thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    College House

    College House is a hall of residence at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Founded originally in 1850 as a collegiate for young men alongside Christ's College, it became a residential college for the then Canterbury College of the new University of New Zealand in 1873.

    3 km · hall of residence in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Burnside Park

    Burnside Park is a cricket ground in Burnside, Canterbury, New Zealand. The first recorded match on the ground came when Canterbury Women played Auckland Women in 1974.

    900 m · sports ground in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church, Riccarton

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand. It is registered as Category II by Heritage New Zealand.

    3.8 km · New Zealand church · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Barnabas Church

    St Barnabas Church is an Anglican church in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is registered as Category I by Heritage New Zealand.

    3.8 km · church in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui

    St Paul's Anglican Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in the suburb of Papanui, Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand. The church was listed as a Category II heritage building by Heritage New Zealand on 9 December 2005.

    3.7 km · Anglican church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Northlands Shopping Centre

    Northlands Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand. Located in the suburb of Papanui, it opened on 1 November 1967 and is the second-largest mall in the South Island of New Zealand.

    3.9 km · shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Christchurch Football Centre

    United Sports Centre, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Russley in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is used for football matches and is the home stadium of Southern League and National League side Christchurch United and OFC Professional League side South Island United.

    3.1 km · football stadium in Russley, Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Burnside

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 2 km
Stations
Christchurch International Airport, 2.5 km · Papanui Railway Station, 3.7 km
  • Wellington → Burnside
    306 km · quickest by air, 3h 39m · NZ$120–190
  • Queenstown → Burnside
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Auckland → Burnside
    763 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · NZ$200–310
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burnside

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 Burnside. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
  • Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
  • Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
  • Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
  • Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.

From Wikivoyage: Christchurch, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    392 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,035 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,691 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,119 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,764 km

If you know how people move in Burnside – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Burnside

Burnside is 7 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Harewoodsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.1 km
  • Fendaltonsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.8 km
  • Bishopdalesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.3 km
  • Upper Riccartonsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.9 km
  • Avonheadsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.1 km
  • Ilamsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.7 km