Waimakariri River Regional Park
73 Trails
125 POIs
6 Picnic Sites
7 Viewpoints
Description
The Waimakariri River, formerly briefly known as the Courtenay River, is one of the largest of the North Canterbury rivers, in the South Island of New Zealand. It flows for 151 kilometres (94 mi) in a generally southeastward direction from the Southern Alps across the Canterbury Plains to the Pacific Ocean. In Māori, Waimakariri has several meanings, one of which is "river of cold rushing water". The river is known colloquially in Canterbury as "The Waimak". The river rises on the eastern flanks of the Southern Alps, eight kilometres southwest of Arthur's Pass. For much of its upper reaches, the river is braided, with wide shingle beds. As the river approaches the Canterbury Plains, it passes through a belt of mountains, and is forced into a narrow canyon (the Waimakariri Gorge), before reverting to its braided form for its passage across the plains. It finally enters the Pacific north of Christchurch, near the town of Kaiapoi.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- 1st North Street
- 1st Street
- 3rd Street
- 5th Street
- Allegro
- Charlie Street
- Christchurch 360 Trail
- Coringa Loop
- Delta Street
- Lombardy Road
- MTB Track
- MTB Track (River Loop Track)
- MTB Track (blue)
- Motorcycle track
- North Poplar Crescent
- South Poplar Crescent
- South River Road
- Stop Bank
- Storm Street
- Walking Track (green)
- Walking Track Green
- Waterhole Road
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- Locked
- Paintball
Copyright
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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA (SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (Aerial imagery) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (NZ Topo 50) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Gobeirne https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waimakariri02_gobeirne.jpg CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).
