Ōtautahi · Trail 03
What the river kept
Ōtākaro was a mahinga kai long before it was a punting reach. Walk the residential red zone with the vanished streets pinned back on.
- 8 stops
- 2.9 km
- 1 hr 50
- Free
- 21 archival plates
About this walk
This is the trail the paired photographs were built for. Long stretches of the route are now open grass where streets used to be.
It is a quiet walk, and deliberately so — a lot of people lived here until recently.
The route
The residential red zone
Street lines under grass, with the houses pinned back on.
The springs
Why the flats were worth living on in the first place.
3 of 8 stops are written up here; the full route is in the app.