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The Banks Track is a 31 kilometre private walking track on the Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand in the Canterbury region. The track opened in 1989 as the first privately owned track in New Zealand.
The reserve includes 20 walking tracks open to the public, including part of the Banks Peninsula Track. The reserve is managed for the Trust by botanist Hugh Wilson, who hand-writes and illustrates a newsletter about the reserve, Pīpipi, which the Trust publishes several times a year. [4]
On 28 May 2006 the first section of the rail trail was opened, between Motukarara and Catons Bay Reserve. It has since been extended, first to the Little River hotel, and then to Wairewa Pa Road, [1] some 500 m short of the restored Little River station, which has preserved ex-New Zealand Railways freight wagons and a craft centre.
Banks Peninsula is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It has an area of approximately 1,200 square kilometres (450 sq mi) [ 1 ] and encompasses two large harbours and many smaller bays and coves.
The Little River Rail Trail is a cycling and walking track that opened in 2006, which largely follows the course of the old Little River Branch railway that ran to Little River from its junction with the Southbridge Branch in Lincoln. This branch line was opened to Little River on 11 March 1886, closed to passengers on 14 April 1951, and closed ...
The peak is increasingly accessible to the public since the purchase, with tracks for walking and mountain biking being established and connected to existing tracks in Orton Bradley Park and elsewhere on the peninsula. [8] This includes the establishment of Te Ara Pātaka, a 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) track across much of central Banks Peninsula ...
Also known as a cable car, the Christchurch Gondola's course is 1,000 metres (1,100 yd) in length, and from the summit it is possible to see across the city of Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains to the Southern Alps in the north and west, and down into Lyttelton Harbour and Banks Peninsula in the south and east.
Motukarara Racecourse is a grass harness racing track operated by the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Greenpark Huts is a small village on the shore of Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.