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Accommodation at Stony Bay for walkers on the Banks Track. 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. [citation needed]
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 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]
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 ...
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The area of the park was first established as one of the earliest agricultural estates on the Banks Peninsula. Dr Thomas Richard Moore bought 50 acres of land in 1852 on which he built a substantial cottage. By 1858 he had acquired a further 150 acres and converted the cottage into dairy. [2]
The Banks–Vernonia State Trail was the first linear rail trail state park in Oregon. [4] The Portland, Astoria & Pacific Railroad built the original rail line in 1913 to transport timber, freight, and passengers. [2] In the 1920s, trains on the line hauled logs and lumber from Keasey and the Oregon-American mill in Vernonia to Portland.