Pakuranga

Worth seeing in and around Pakuranga

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
   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.

   2.7 km · Urban park in East Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   3.9 km · hill in New Zealand · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Sylvia Park

   Sylvia Park is a large business park and shopping centre in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington in New Zealand. Less commonly known, the area around the centre is also called Sylvia Park.

   2.7 km · Offices and shopping mall in Mount Wellington, Auckland · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   2.8 km · museum in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Mutukaroa / Hamlins Hill Regional Park

   Mutukāroa / Hamlins Hill Regional Park is a regional park situated in the Auckland suburb of Penrose, north-east of the Manukau Harbour and west of the Tāmaki River. The park is owned and operated by Auckland Council.

   3.6 km · regional park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Panmure Bridge

   The Panmure Bridge, also known as the Tāmaki River Bridge, or Panmure Highway Bridge, is a bridge crossing the Tāmaki River in Auckland, New Zealand, connecting the suburbs of Panmure and Pakuranga. The original 1865 bridge, a wooden and steel structure with a swing span allowing for river traffic, was the first bridge to connect the Auckland isthmus to the surrounding areas of Auckland, predating the opening of the Māngere Bridge in 1875.

   1.4 km · bridge in New Zealand · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Pakuranga Plaza

   Pakuranga Plaza is a shopping mall in Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand. The centre includes several dozen stores, including the anchor tenants Woolworths and Panda Mart.

   0 m · Suburban shopping centre in Pakuranga, Auckland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Pakuranga

Airports

Auckland (AKL), 13 km

Stations

Panmure railway station, 2.6 km · Sylvia Park railway station, 2.6 km

• Wellington → Pakuranga

  490 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · NZ$170–270
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• Christchurch → Pakuranga

  764 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · NZ$220–340
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pakuranga

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

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