Albert Park
Princes Street, Auckland CBD
Albert Park is downtown Auckland's historic central park — 5.
Auckland Botanic Gardens
102 Hill Road, Manurewa
The Auckland Botanic Gardens are 64 hectares of themed gardens in Manurewa in south Auckland — the largest botanical collection in the city, opened in 1982 and home to over 10,000 plant species across 30 themed gardens including a Rose Garden, a Native Plant Ideas Garden (showcasing edible and useful New Zealand natives), a Potter Children's Garden with a giant kōura (freshwater crayfish) sculpture, and the Māori Plant Use Collection.
Cornwall Park
Greenlane Road West, Epsom
Cornwall Park is 220 hectares of working farmland in the middle of Auckland — gifted to the city in 1901 by John Logan Campbell as a 'people's park' and still grazed by sheep, beef cattle, and the Belgian blue breeding herd that makes the park a surreal pastoral landscape ringed by suburban houses.
Tāmaki Drive Waterfront Walk
Tamaki Drive, Auckland
Tāmaki Drive is the coastal road that connects the Auckland CBD to the eastern bays — an 8-kilometre waterfront boulevard built in the 1920s as a public-works project that now provides a flat walking, running, and cycling path with unbroken views across the Waitematā Harbour to Devonport, Rangitoto, and (on clear days) the Coromandel Peninsula.
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