Dyers Pass Road

Q: Where is Dyers Pass Road?

In Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Q: What gets reported on Dyers Pass Road?

600 reports at 183 addresses, most often water & drains (186), roads & footpaths (127), trees & parks (117).

Q: When was Dyers Pass Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 483 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Q: What is the busiest corner on Dyers Pass Road?

Dyers Pass Road and Summit Road, 166 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 6 of them fatal.

Q: What heritage places are on Dyers Pass Road?

Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Whareora.

600 reports at 183 addresses in Cashmere, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 483 separate days somebody filed something about it.

600 reports 183 addresses483 days reported on2 on the register from the air, then 50 documents carry the name 2 businessesthe 52nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Dyers Pass Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Cashmere.

From the air, then

Dyers Pass Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Dyers Pass Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Dyers Pass Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Dyers Pass Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

and the other 123 the record names

What got reported

Water & drains, 186 reports
Roads & footpaths, 127 reports
Trees & parks, 117 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 76 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 45 reports
Vehicles & parking, 29 reports
Everything else, 16 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports

Year by year

2016, 5 reports
2017, 9 reports
2018, 13 reports
2019, 22 reports
2020, 20 reports
2021, 30 reports
2022, 73 reports
2023, 119 reports
2024, 101 reports
2025, 110 reports

On the register

Dwelling and Setting, 54 Dyers Pass Road
Dwelling and Setting, Whareora, 63 Dyers Pass Road

On foot, The hillside climb walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 50 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

ARBOR DAY. (Star, 31 May 1906) · Papers Past, 31 May 1906
…ue which arranged to celebrate arbor day to-day by planting some hundreds of trees on the dyers pass road was almost defeated in carrying out its object by the weather it had fixed ten oclock as the t…
CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 10 August 1909) · Papers Past, 10 Aug 1909
…rd had made a request for a contribution of 300 yards of broken metal towards reinstating dyers pass road which it was alleged had blen considerably damaged during the construction of the waterworks c…
Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1917
Cardboard mounted photographs showing interior dining room of the Sign of the Kiwi on Dyers Pass Road. Photographs…
Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1917
Cardboard mounted photographs showing interior dining room of the Sign of the Kiwi on Dyers Pass Road. Photographs…
Sign of the Kiwi building: digital image · Picture Wairarapa, 1 Jan 1925
Shows the Sign of the Kiwi building on Dyers Pass Road and Summit Road in Christchurch. Designed by <span style="color:#333333;font-family:arial…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 27 November 1925) · Papers Past, 27 Nov 1925
…too large for us to handle v x national mortgage agency co ltd leeston and southbridde i dyers pass road chrisichurch ft hackthorne road chch 30 mph pgmstjzjs a-e crensterrace timaru ysgr yi re stree…
Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road and Bowenvale Avenue · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road, Hackthorne Road, and Bowenvale Avenue. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
Aerial photomosaic of Port Hills and Dyers Pass Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Port Hills and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
Aerial photomosaic of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of the Port Hills showing sections of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road and Summit Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of the Port Hills showing sections of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
CLEVER CHILDREN (Evening Post, 24 December 1926) · Papers Past, 24 Dec 1926
…race christchurch age 8 bell edna 109 cambridge terrace christchurch age 10 brown alan 12 dyers pass road cashmere age 13 henshaw henry lucas 99 springs road soekburn christchurch age is hollsacl mick…
Dyers Pass and Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1927
View of Dyers Pass Road, with the Sign of the Kiwi visible on the right. Photographs…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Dyers Pass Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Water Tower (Cashmere Hill lookout) lookout · 62 m away Sign of the Takahe Lookout lookout · 65 m away Te Heru-o-Kahukura / Sugarloaf summit · 88 m away seat lookout · 174 m away Purau Reserve set of steps · 2 m away Elizabeth Park set of steps · 2 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 4 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 7 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 7 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Dyers Pass Road in 187 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 42 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Dyers Pass Road & Summit Road, 166 crashes pinned to the pairing, 6 killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.