Pinehill Lookout is a park at 192 Browns Bay Road in Murrays Bay, on Auckland's North Shore, listed among Auckland Council's parks and holding a 4.0 Google rating.
The small neighbourhood reserves strung along the East Coast Bays ridge are typically slices of the old coastal headland kept as grass, mature trees and a path or two, with the outlook over the Hauraki Gulf as the main attraction rather than playgrounds or toilets. They suit short stops — a dog walk (check the gate signage, as council on- and off-leash rules change from park to park), a bench lunch or ten minutes of quiet between errands. Regulars tend to favour the edges of the day, when the light softens over the water, the wind drops and the traffic on the main road thins out.
Pinehill Lookout sits on the Browns Bay Road stretch where Murrays Bay climbs towards Pinehill, a handy green pause on the ridge above the bays.