Mount Eden Summit

park — Mount Eden · Auckland

About Mount Eden Summit

Mount Eden Summit is the top of Maungawhau, the volcanic cone rising over the Mount Eden neighbourhood of Auckland City, and it holds a 4.8 rating on Google.

Auckland's volcanic cone parks share a few habits worth knowing before you climb: the walk up from the street is short but honestly steep, paths turn slippery after rain, and the clearest views tend to come early in the morning or in the hour before dusk. The cones are ancestral maunga, sacred to mana whenua, so local etiquette is to keep to formed paths and stay off crater floors and terraces. Being bare and exposed, they also catch the wind, so a warm layer earns its keep even on a bright day.

For the highest natural point on the Auckland isthmus, this is the climb at the heart of Mount Eden — and the 4.8 rating suggests most who make it agree.