Christchurch
Hiking routes around Christchurch
29 waymarked hiking routes run within 18 km of Christchurch: 3 regional and 26 local.
Around Christchurch
No national or international trail comes within 18 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. C360 - Christchurch 360 Trail passes through Christchurch: 8 sections with 143 km mapped in all, nearly all of it within 18 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is C360f Avonhead Gardens, about 26 km from Macleans Island to Riccarton Bush. Most of the 26 local routes are short walks: 16 of them are under 10 km.
The routes with most of their length within 18 km
- C360 - Christchurch 360 TrailRegional · C360 · 8 sections140 km within 18 km · Mt Cavendish Gondola to Sumner, New Brighton Spencer Park, The Groyes, Macleans Island, Avonhead, Riccarton, Halswell Quarry to Mt Cavendish GondolaChristchurch 360 Trail
- C360f Avonhead GardensLocal · C360f26 km within 18 km · Macleans Island to Riccarton Bush
- Crater Rim WalkwayRegional · CRW20 km within 18 km · Ahuriri Bush to Godley Heads
- C360e Waimakariri BraidsLocal · C360e19 km within 18 km · Whites Crossing to Mcleans Island Park
- C360b Estuary MarshesLocal · C360b19 km within 18 km · Sumner Esplanade east to Avon River at Paiges Road
- C360h Sugarloaf HillsLocal · C360h18 km within 18 km · Halswell Quarry Park to Mt Cavendish Gondola station.
- C360a Godley CliffsLocal · C360a16 km within 18 km · near Mount Cavendish to Sumner
- C360g Opawaho DivideLocal · C360g16 km within 18 km · Riccarton Bush to Halswell Quarry
- C360c Dunes WetlandsLocal · C360c16 km within 18 km · Avon River at Pages Road to Spencer Beach Holiday Park.
- C360 Trail - alternative - Summit RoadLocal · C360p13 km within 18 km
- C360d Brooklands MouthLocal · C360d9.9 km within 18 km
- Mount Herbert WalkwayLocal9.3 km within 18 km
Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.
Good to know
- Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
- Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
- Lengths within 18 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.
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