Porritt Park is a park at 845 Avonside Drive in Wainoni, Christchurch, on the banks of the Avon River in the city's east, and it holds a 4.3 rating from six Google reviews. A good suburban park earns its keep by doing several jobs at once: marked fields for organised sport, open grass for a casual kick-around, and paths that give walkers and runners room to move. In Christchurch's low-lying eastern suburbs, heavy rain leaves the ground soft for days, and sports fields are sometimes closed over winter to recover — checking the council's notices before a planned game saves a wasted trip. Regulars also tend to time their visits around booked sport, with weekday mornings and early evenings quieter than Saturday fixtures. For Wainoni and Avonside locals, Porritt Park puts open riverside green space within an easy walk along Avonside Drive.