Brooklands - Kainga Trail

walking track — Brooklands · Christchurch

About Brooklands - Kainga Trail

The Brooklands Mouth leg of the Christchurch 360 Trail, a 10.3 km walk that takes about four hours, from Seafield Park beside Spencer Beach Holiday Park to Whites Crossing on the Waimakariri River. It starts near Adrenalin Forest, which has high wires and a flying fox, and passes Brooklands Lagoon, a tidal estuary where over 100 bird species have been recorded and more than 5,000 wetland birds gather at peak times in summer and autumn. A bird hide is on the lagoon walk. The route also goes through Te Rauakaaka Reserve and the villages of Brooklands, Stewarts Gully and Kainga, and past the empty red-zoned Brooklands streets. One walker found it a quiet, easy walk with a good sense of the area's history and changing landscape, and generally flat enough for families with children. There is car parking at Spencer Park and Seafield Park, and there are places partway along to park and start a shorter walk.