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Other leisure opportunities

This section identifies many of the miscellaneous recreation and community facilities and services Nelson City Council looks after and provides, for the city.

To locate many of these facilities, you can search on the Council's GIS system to map out specific parks and reserves. Simply enter the GIS system, read the introductory information, and then isolate your search for parks and reserves. Do this by selecting "PARK NAME" in the 'Search In' field on the far right of the programme.

Go to the Council Geographic Information System (GIS)

Dog exercise areas | Kite flying | Model aeroplanes | Modellers ponds | Off-road jogging | Sand yachting | Windsurfing

Dog exercise areas

Branford Park, Nelson
Corder Park, Nelson
Railway Reserve, Nelson
Tahunanui Back Beach, Nelson

Click here for more information on dog ownership in Nelson.

Click here for a map of areas dogs are allowed and not allowed (PDF @ 315KB).

Kite flying

Greenmeadows, Stoke
Neale Park, Nelson
Saxton Field, Stoke
Wakapuaka Reserve Sand Flats, Nelson

Model aeroplanes

Wakapuaka Reserve Sand Flats, Nelson 

Modellers ponds

Corder Park Pond, Nelson
Saxton Field Green, Stoke
Tahunanui Beach Reserve, Nelson

Off-road jogging

Botanical Hill, Nelson
Dun Mountain Walkway
Grampians, Nelson
Maitai Valley Walkway, Nelson
Neale Park, Nelson
Nelson Airport Perimeter, Nelson
Saxton Field, Stoke
Sir Stanley Whitehead Park, Nelson
Tahunanui Beach, Nelson
Tantragee Saddle

Sand yachting

Wakapuaka Reserve Sand Flats, Nelson

Windsurfing

Atawhai foreshore (opposite turnoff to Dodson Valley)
Tahunanui Beach

 

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