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Fast Facts of Victoria Park in Christchurch Location: Victoria Park, Victoria Road
Area of Park: 85 hectares
Perimeter of Park: 9 kilometres Adventure-lovers must visit Victoria Park in Christchurch. With fascinating greenery and landscape, it would lead you to the fun, adventure and frolic of the beautiful Port Hills. Whether you want to relish the beauty of Victoria Park throughout the day, or just hop in at the picnic areas, playground, dog park and the Information Centre, you can do both in this popular park in Christchurch in New Zealand. Victoria Park in Christchurch is bound to tempt you towards the Ports Hills – which has a series of sweat-out scopes like scenic drives, mountain bike tracks, running, rock climbing and wildlife watching in between Godley Head to Coopers Knob.
Features of Victoria Park in Christchurch
Before you begin the hiking up the Port Hills, you should go to the viewing point in the Victoria Park in Christchurch from where you will get intriguing view of the surrounding area including the city and the sea and even the mountains towards the Southern Alps and the Kaikoura Mountains to the north.
Once you move on walking the track from Victoria Park in Christchurch, you may also spot bellbirds, fantails, chaffinches, greenfinches, grey warblers and pigeon.
You will also notice planting of trees in the park where even the locals and the social groups participate. If you visit Victoria Park in Christchurch on special planting events like Arbor Day.
Thus you will come across the plant species like kauri, Pittosporum dallii, proteas, banksias, grevilleas and leucodendrons on the slopes.
Victoria Park Visitors' Centre on the top of the hill, was earlier a round stone shelter, which was built in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
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