Top rated Nature preserves in Mangere, New Zealand to elevate your visit (Updated February, 2024)

Top rated Nature preserves in Mangere

Experience the best that Mangere has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 14 places from Nature preserve category.

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Mangere Mountain

Nature preserve

👍👍 One of Auckland’s most underrated maunga. A gorgeous walk, and one that is getting better with ongoing improvement works to the pathways - both making it a more comfortable walk and also preserving the cones themselves. Great views out over the Manukau Harbour.

4.70 (235 reviews) (~2.89 km from centre)

Kingswood Reserve

Nature preserve

👍👍 Good spot fishing

4.70 (56 reviews) (~6.1 km from centre)

Blockhouse Bay Recreational Reserve

Park

👍👍 Great place to walk the dogs and get some fresh air.

4.60 (184 reviews) (~9.65 km from centre)

Watercare Coastal Walkway

Nature preserve

👍 My first track in 2021. This one is very easy to walk, especially for hiking beginners to start with. 20 minutes away from the city downtown in South. Basically it's walking surrounded the Wayercare waste water facility. No impressive view though. Due to some ongoing projects original tracks were...

4.60 (60 reviews) (~3.88 km from centre)

Blockhouse Bay Beach Reserve

Park

👍👍 Beautiful park area with a nice playground. Plenty of space and a huge beach at low tide. Really nice atmosphere.

4.50 (940 reviews) (~9.29 km from centre)

Mount Roskill Summit

Nature preserve

👍👍 It's really nice place. Really good for summer. We went there during matariki kite festival. It was fabulous.

4.50 (284 reviews) (~8.22 km from centre)

Lynfield Cove Beach

Park

👍👍 Can't go wrong with this cove.. It's beautiful but... Sad how public use this coves parking area as an alcohol park and dump cans, bottles around.. Council always clean up but hey no gates, open and no one monitoring weekend late binges of public with no home to have alcohol... The cove have vandal...

4.50 (129 reviews) (~8.66 km from centre)

Waikowhai Park

Park

Native forestland on the bay, with a playground, hiking trails, picnic tables & birdwatching.

4.40 (657 reviews) (~6.53 km from centre)

Wattle Bay Reserve

Park

👍👍 Beautiful area, peaceful and mostly shaded except along the Sylvania Ave-Himalaya Reserve section, of course. Easy uphill & downhill walks; took me an hour to stroll from the entrance on Canberra Avenue to the exit through Manukau Domain on Halsey Drive.

4.30 (126 reviews) (~7.13 km from centre)

Turners Reserve

Park

👍👍 Great place to pull off May Rd when your car breaks down 🤗

4.30 (104 reviews) (~8.42 km from centre)

Taylors Bay

Park

👍 Great little play ground for little people. Quite and easy with easy parking and good views of the harbour.

4.30 (69 reviews) (~5.65 km from centre)

Kohuora Park

Nature preserve

👍👍 This is a very nice place to go for walks very scenic.

4.30 (62 reviews) (~4.93 km from centre)

Watercare Coastal Walkway entrance from Greenwood Road

Nature preserve

👍 Nice to be out in nature. Nice views. Sometimes there are smells from waste treatment plant but they soon vanish as you walk away

4.30 (43 reviews) (~0.84 km from centre)

Papatoetoe Recreation Ground

Park

👍👍 Beautiful venue for club cricket. Lots of matches happening simultaneously across the different fields on weekends.

4.20 (217 reviews) (~6.42 km from centre)

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Top rated Nature preserves in Mangere, New Zealand