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Goodwood Heights

Goodwood Heights is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

The place

Goodwood Heights is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located approximately 20 kilometres southeast of the Auckland CBD; to the north of Totara Heights, east of Manukau Central and south of Chapel Downs. It was formerly part of Manukau City until the merger of all of Auckland's councils into the 'super city' in 2010.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Goodwood Heights

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
    Auckland Botanic Gardens

    Auckland Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in the New Zealand city of Auckland. It is located in the suburb of Manurewa, in the Manurewa Local Board Area.

    2.3 km · botanic garden owned by the Auckland Council · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Matukutūruru

    Matukutūruru is a volcano in Wiri, Auckland. Part of the Auckland volcanic field; it is one of the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau.

    4 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rainbow's End

    Rainbow's End is a theme park in Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand. Rainbow's End has an area of 9.3 hectares and includes the main theme park and also Kidz Kingdom, a family entertainment centre for children 8 years and under.

    1.4 km · amusement park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wiri Lava Cave

    Matukutūruru is a volcano in Wiri, Auckland. Part of the Auckland volcanic field; it is one of the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau.

    3.8 km · cave in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Auckland New Zealand Temple

    The Auckland New Zealand Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the suburb of Goodwood Heights outside Manukau Central in Auckland, New Zealand. The intent to build the temple was announced on October 7, 2018, by church president Russell M. Nelson, during general conference.

    800 m · LDS Church temple in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Baitul Muqeet Mosque

    This is an incomplete list of mosques in Oceania.

    3 km · mosque in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Westfield Manukau

    Westfield Manukau is a major shopping centre located in Manukau, a southern district of Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1972, it was originally named Manukau City Centre.

    1.6 km · shopping center in Manukau, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Waenganui / Allenby Park

    This is a list of public parks in Papatoetoe, a suburb in South Auckland. They are maintained by Auckland Council.

    3 km · park in Papatoetoe, Auckland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nathan Homestead

    Nathan Homestead is a historic site located in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand. Developed from the remnants of the Nathan family farm, the Homestead and its surrounding park spans 3.7 hectares and features community buildings, playgrounds, landscaped gardens, a totara-kahikatea forest, and the aforementioned Nathan Homestead, a brick mansion built in 1925 for the Nathan Family.

    2.4 km · historic house in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Barry Curtis Park

    Barry Curtis Park is a park named after Barry Curtis in Flat Bush, Manukau City of which the first stage was opened in April 2009. At 94 hectares, it is one of New Zealand's largest parks, of a size as has not been established since the Auckland Domain in the 1840s.

    3.5 km · urban park in Auckland, 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.

Go there

Getting to Goodwood Heights

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 10 km
Stations
Manurewa railway station, 3.1 km · Manukau railway station, 2 km · Puhinui railway station, 3.9 km · Wiri railway station, 3.4 km · Homai railway station, 3.1 km
  • Wellington → Goodwood Heights
    477 km · quickest by air, 4h 6m · NZ$160–250
  • Christchurch → Goodwood Heights
    752 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · NZ$200–310
  • Queenstown → Goodwood Heights
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Goodwood Heights

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFullers run a ferry approximately once every two hours from Central Auckland to Half Moon Bay.
  • Go nextFerries leave from Half Moon Bay for Hauraki Gulf islands and central Auckland.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland/South Auckland, 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

    1,035 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,437 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,443 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,184 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,352 km

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

Around it

Next door to Goodwood Heights

Goodwood Heights is 2 km from Manukau City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.