Te Arai Regional Park is an Auckland Council regional park at 708 Te Arai Point Rd in Te Arai, Rodney, holding a 4.8 Google rating for its stretch of farm, dune and coastline at the region's northern edge.
Auckland's regional parks are working farmland and coast kept open for day visitors — generally free to enter, with gates that close at dusk and little in the way of shops or taps, so regulars carry in water, food and rubbish bags. In this part of Rodney the appeal is the pairing of gentle farm walks with a surf beach, so it's worth checking tide times and sticking to marked tracks around stock. Coastal parks also shelter nesting shorebirds, so dog rules and seasonal track closures are common — check before you set out.
For a day trip north of Auckland, that mix of pasture, dunes and surf sits right here at Te Arai Point.