Akaroa Recreation Ground
Sports ground · 3 ha
From the air
Where it sits
Its centre falls inside Akaroa, suburb membership is a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.
The camping bylaw names this ground, Akaroa Freedom Camping Area: two nights in certified self-contained vehicles only. The zone drawings sit at /rules.
More green in Akaroa
- Misty Peaks Reserve, Regional · 500 ha
- Takapuneke Reserve, Regional · 10 ha
- L'aube Hill Reserve · 7 ha
- Stanley Park · 7 ha
- Garden Of Tane, Botanic · 6 ha
- Green Point Park · 4 ha
- Akaroa Boat Park · 2 ha
- Takamatua Stream Esplanade Reserve · 1 ha
What’s built on this ground
No playground is on the register here, the asset layers name none for this ground.
Also on the register: 13 seats (8 seats and 5 benches), 5 picnic tables, 1 barbecue (electric) and 3 pieces of sports gear (1 cricket net, 1 skateboard rail and 1 basketball hoop).
The register’s commission dates run 2000 to 2018.
The register’s site tag names this park, and its pins stand inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.
Sport and dogs on this ground
The recreation register marks 17 playing surfaces on this ground, 3 Cricket, 3 Tennis, 3 Netball, 3 Pickleball, BMX, Petanque and 3 other codes, graded intermediate, senior and junior on mixed dirt, sand-based astroturf, asphalt and concrete, 2 run a winter or summer booking season.
The register books them by name, BMX, Senior Cricket Block 1, Training Cricket Block, Tennis Court 2, Tennis Court 1 and Tennis Court 3, and 8 more named grounds.
The summer window runs October to March; the winter window runs April to August; match days land on Saturday and Sunday; training runs Monday to Friday.
The register names this park, and its record centroids sit inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.
The plaques on this ground
Inscribed plaques whose pin stands inside the park's drawn outline, the remembered names the register keeps here.
An Akaroa and Bays Lions Project · 2018
Erected in Memory of Rex & Son Murray Davis Both Had a Life · 2008
In Loving Memory Len Blomquist 1902 - 1993 · 2008
In Memory of Dave & Doris Woodill Donated by the Woodill · 2008
In Memory of Ted Armstrong 1912 - 1995 · 2008
To Commemorate Akaroa Cricket Club Centennial 24 February · 2008
The civic shelf inside
Libraries, toilets, courts and the rest whose point falls inside the park’s drawn outline, the ground in use, the way a register pin is the ground remembered.
- Akaroa Service Centre, Service centre
The reports on this ground
75 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 61 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the whole park.
Water General, 28B Rue Jolie, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
Abandoned Vehicle, 31 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 25 July 2026
Water Leak, 28 Rue Jolie, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 17 June 2026- Flooding, 28 Rue Lavaud, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 13 June 2026
Water General, Rue Brittan, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 3 June 2026
Water General, 28 Rue Lavaud, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 7 May 2026
Facility - General Request, 38 Rue Lavaud, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 21 April 2026
Water Leak, 40 Rue Brittan, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 4 April 2026
Sewer General, 28 Rue Jolie, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 16 February 2026
Litter, 28B Rue Jolie, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 3 January 2026
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 40 Rue Jolie, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 8 December 2025
Public Toilet, 40 Rue Jolie, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 7 November 2025
Environment Canterbury / Canterbury Maps, Parks layer · refreshed 10 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
3 hectares by the layer’s own polygon.
Its centre falls inside Akaroa, a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.
Sports ground.
Environment Canterbury’s open Parks layer, kind, size and suburb read straight from it.