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Redcliffs

Redcliffs is an outer coastal suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Redcliffs
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The place

Redcliffs is an outer coastal suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Redcliffs

9 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
    Moncks Cave

    Moncks Cave is a cave located in Redcliffs, Christchurch, New Zealand. The cave was uncovered by road workers in 1889, and is considered to be one of the greatest archaeological sites in New Zealand.

    700 m · cave located in Redcliffs, Christchurch · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant

    Tauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant, also known just as either Mount Pleasant or Tauhinukorokio individually, is the highest elevation in the eastern Port Hills in Christchurch, New Zealand. It once held a Māori pā, but there was little left of it when European settlers first arrived in the 1840s.

    2.9 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Cavendish

    Mount Cavendish is located in the Port Hills, with views over Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano that formed Lyttelton Harbour.

    3.2 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ferrymead Heritage Park

    Ferrymead Heritage Park is an outdoor museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. First known as the Museum of Science and Technology and later Ferrymead Historic Park, it was founded in 1964 by a collection of local heritage enthusiast groups who had a common need for space to store and display their assets.

    2.4 km · museum in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ferrymead Railway

    Ferrymead Heritage Park is an outdoor museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. First known as the Museum of Science and Technology and later Ferrymead Historic Park, it was founded in 1964 by a collection of local heritage enthusiast groups who had a common need for space to store and display their assets.

    2.4 km · heritage railway in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ferrymead Regional Park

    Ferrymead Regional Park is a regional park in Christchurch, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River. The park is adjacent to Ferrymead Heritage Park, and the Ferrymead Railway runs through the eastern section of the park.

    2 km · park in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    National Railway Museum of New Zealand

    The National Railway Museum of New Zealand is a museum under construction in Christchurch, New Zealand, that covers the history of the New Zealand railway network. Work is underway to open at Ferrymead Heritage Park in Ferrymead, Christchurch, at the site of New Zealand's first railway opened in 1863.

    2.4 km · museum in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building

    The Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building was built in the mid-1960s as an operational building for the Lyttelton road tunnel in Christchurch, New Zealand. The building was designed by architect Peter Beaven and is seen as significant in the development of New Zealand architecture.

    3.2 km · operational Building · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial

    The Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial commemorates the pioneer women of Canterbury in New Zealand. After arrival by sea in Lyttelton Harbour, early settlers had to cross the Port Hills via the Bridle Path to reach Christchurch or the Canterbury Plains.

    3.9 km · New Zealand memorial · 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 Redcliffs

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 18 km
Stations
Castle Rock, 3.7 km
  • Wellington → Redcliffs
    303 km · quickest by air, 4h 15m · NZ$150–230
  • Queenstown → Redcliffs
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Auckland → Redcliffs
    766 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · NZ$230–350
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Redcliffs

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 Redcliffs. 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

    403 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,047 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,706 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,133 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,758 km

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

Around it

Next door to Redcliffs

Redcliffs is 9 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.