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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Redwood

3 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
    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.

    3.2 km · Anglican church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Willowbank Wildlife Reserve

    Willowbank Wildlife Reserve is a wildlife park and nature reserve in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as having public displays of various animal species it also carries out conservation of native species including tuatara, kiwi, brown teal, and Duvaucel's gecko.

    1.4 km · wildlife park in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.9 km · shopping mall in 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 Redwood

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 7 km · Wellington (WLG), 299 km
Stations
Papanui Railway Station, 3 km
  • Wellington → Redwood
    301 km · quickest by air, 3h 43m · NZ$130–200
  • Queenstown → Redwood
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Auckland → Redwood
    758 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · NZ$210–320
  • 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 Redwood

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 Redwood. 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

    397 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,039 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,692 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,122 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,759 km

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

Around it

Next door to Redwood

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

  • Belfastsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.8 km
  • Papanuisuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.6 km
  • Bishopdalesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3 km
  • Marshlandsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand4 km
  • Northcotesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.8 km
  • Northwoodsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.2 km