MEADOWBANK
LOCATION GUIDE
A quiet pocket, well connected
Meadowbank Train Station, with its nine-minute run to Britomart, is right on your doorstep. Buses at the Meadowbank Road shops whisk you into town via Remuera (every 10 minutes), Newmarket (every 15 minutes), or Parnell (every 30 minutes). But Meadowbank’s pièce de résistance is Te Ara Ki Uta Ki Tai, the 7km shared pathway that runs from Tamaki Drive, through the eastern ’burbs and out to Glen Innes
For a dose of serenity after a busy day, it’s hard to go past Ōrākei Basin. In the unlikely event you tire of perambulating around the Basin itself, Waiatarua Reserve, 41 hectares of wilderness and wonder, awaits. More than half this urban paradise is a wetland restoration project, New Zealand’s largest, where pukeko, pīwakawaka, and herons of all feather flock, along with local artists, aesthetes, dog walkers, MAMILs, and joggers.
Could there be any finer reward for living in this luscious part of Tāmaki Makaurau? Probably not, though if you want fun and games closer to home, hop down to the end of Koa Street to the Tahapa Reserve, where you’ll find a playground, basketball hoop, and access to the Te Ara Ki Uta Ki Tai pathway. Yep, time for another lap
Meadowbank serves as a stepping-stone to the Eastern Bays, meaning you can zip across to Mission Bay, Kohimarama, and St Heliers within 15 minutes. Remuera is just seven minutes’ drive, Newmarket 10 to 12, though we imagine the cycleways and superlative train connections will be hard to resist. If the weather’s nice and you’ve got a good podcast on, you can stroll the coastal route to Auckland War Memorial Museum in an hour.
Meadowbank School, Mt Carmel School, St Joseph’s School, Selwyn College, and Baradene College.
Train or walk,
to some of Auckland's best.
21 Manapau Street, Meadowbank, Auckland 1072
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Green spaces. Coastal paths. Everyday ease.
Tucked into the Ōrākei Basin, Meadowbank is a demure contender for Auckland’s Best-Kept Secret Award. Replete with restored waterways and birdlife, awash with the most excellent eateries, Meadowbank is blooming. But even with the local buzz and downtown waterfront proximity, Meadowbank remains quiet and harmonious, a model of estuarine calm.