Best places: City parks in Waitakere, New Zealand

Site of Auckland's highest volcano, with spectacular city & harbour views & a large crater.

Historically significant, tree-filled park with flowerbeds, a Victorian fountain & statues.

👍👍 A lovely park with pond, close to Motat, Auckland Zoo, and the Western Springs Stadium. Just make sure that you aren't wandering around after sunset; as there are plenty of dodgy people lurking around once it gets dark. You can find plenty of swans, ducks and pokeko. You will also find some chickens...

👍👍 This well developed walkway features trails, paved pathways, raised wooden walkways and bridges, and a few stairways. It is great for walking and running, and is popular with locals for dog walking and exercise. It takes a total of about 40 to 45 minutes to walk completely around the basin, and ther...

👍👍 I drive past Craigavon Park several times a week, and finally decided to make a pit stop. On the Portage Road side there is a big, fully fenced playground, with wide open spaces, picnic benches, BBQ -, and toilet facilities. It's a great dog and kid friendly park. There are no steps, and it's prett...

👍👍 Blissful walk at Keith Hay Park. Specially when the crowd is sparse.

👍👍 Awesome splash pad with a great playground as well (more than whats in the photo). Not a lot of shade but new trees have been planted for the future. There's also a skate park, a court and public toilets. Kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves and didn't want to leave.

👍👍 Lots of open space for walking, running, gathering & exercise. Clean, wide paths & bridges. Playground for the children, views of the harbour and the dogs love swimming in the lagoon. Lots of other dogs with friendly owners, plenty parking. It’s pretty here, enjoy the morning & evening strolls. Whee...

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

👍👍 Great outdoor spacious park for sport, dog excercise and family leisure.

👍👍 Perfect for biking and jogging, wide open football field, benches along the pathways. Great playground for kids and families can go picnic. Toilet is also on site.

👍👍 Parking, toilets and a walkway. The park has a large hampster wheel which is a bit different from the normal park. The beach is swimable at high tide and lots of people come here to launch paddle boards and kayaks.on a windy day it's fun to watch all the kite surfers here. There is some motorway noi...

👍👍 Because of lockdown I happened to find this park by taking a walk around my neighborhood. A great piece of Greenland, perfectly for jogging, for walking, for hanging out with families and friends. Anyway, despite I love this park I still hope the Covid can go away soonest possible.

👍👍 Beautiful place. Was here visiting niece @ Devonport Naval Base. Hi Staline Toka. ;)

👍👍 Best playground in the west Auckland, period. This is a well maintained playground with many facilities. Plenty of areas to play and picnic. There is a dedicated bike track for kids and a play area. Biggest attraction is the huge metal slide. Great place host bdays as there are two covered picnic ar...

👍 A great place for sports such as football, basketball and rugby. There's also a playing area for kids and a biking and skating area as well.

👍👍 Dog friendly park and stunning calm beach perfect for kids and adult swimming. Loads of parking, public toilets, kids park, shower, bbq and acres of land for running, walking, training, playing volleyball, soccer, cricket, rugby etc. Picnic spot with shade. People were catching fish too from the roc...

👍 Very good park for family picnic, good for LOVERS ❤️ . Good for swimming in the summer and kayaking . Good views. Heaps of ducks. Can do bbq in the park. Good for your DOG 🐕 to run around.. Bad thing is not much walk around..

👍👍 Nice slides!! Some swings but very sunny in the afternoon.