Summit Road

50 reports at 14 addresses in Governors Bay, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

50 reports 14 addresses45 days reported on2 on the register from the air, then 136 documents carry the namethe 1393rd 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 Summit Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Governors Bay.

From the air, then

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

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

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 16 reports
Roads & footpaths, 14 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports
Water & drains, 2 reports
Everything else, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2018, 1 report
2019, 3 reports
2020, 2 reports
2022, 1 report
2023, 2 reports
2024, 7 reports
2025, 17 reports

On the register

Sign of the Kiwi Grounds and Setting, 1700 Summit Road
Sign of the Kiwi and Setting, 1700 Summit Road

On foot, The bay and the hill walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 136 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 21 January 1879) · Papers Past, 21 Jan 1879
…ended he thought the roads connecting the harbor with okain bay and little akaloa and the summit road were very necessary works mr mdonald thought a portion of these funds should be allotted to wainui…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 21 September 1880) · Papers Past, 21 Sept 1880
…years dating from the ist of november next no acreage locality 1220 130 head of bay next summit road 1225 114 okairfs bay 122g 104 le bon bay 1228 107 okain bay 1229 144 little river 1231 12g price v…
AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 04 October 1881) · Papers Past, 4 Oct 1881
…veyor the request was granted from messrs snndys co calling attention to the state of the summit road from the long bay road to their iand at waikorakikari valley and asking to have it put in repair h…
AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 15 November 1881) · Papers Past, 15 Nov 1881
…a stewart 10 10s john gunning 25 p shadbolt co 18 mrstewartstender was accepted long bay summit roadl p johnston 28 osullivan wanl 23 it was resolved to accept osullivan ward tender waimii valley bus…
AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 27 December 1882) · Papers Past, 27 Dec 1882
…asking if he would accept the position as defined by the council mr mcgregor accepted the summit road the chairman said that the council owned a deht of gratitude to mr wilkin for the work he had done…
Peninsula News. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 06 February 1883) · Papers Past, 6 Feb 1883
…heathcote und wisoccupijd by these gentlemen and d mccullouh they were all at work on the summit road some distance away and had no idea of the catastrophe that was occurring some maoris who wen passi…
AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 13 March 1883) · Papers Past, 13 Mar 1883
…rate for what was a district road for by the government circular they would see that the summit road was hot considered a main road and therefore the county funds should not be devoted to that purpos…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 03 April 1883) · Papers Past, 3 Apr 1883
…near mount bossu 3rd pigeon bay new road-from birdling junction to saddle at junction of summit roads 4th loag bay roadfrom german i bay saddle to grass hill beyond geoige bush sth onuku roadfrom aka…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 06 April 1883) · Papers Past, 6 Apr 1883
…e near mount bossu 3rd pigeon bay new roadfrom birdling junction to saddle at junction of summit roads 4th long bay roadfrom german bay saddle to grass hill beyond george bush 5 th onuku roadfrom akar…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 10 April 1883) · Papers Past, 10 Apr 1883
…e near mount bossu 3rd pigeon bay new roadfrom birdling junction to saddle at junction of summit roads 4th long bay roadfrom german bay saddle to grass hill beyond george bush sth onuku roadfrom akaro…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 13 April 1883) · Papers Past, 13 Apr 1883
…e n ar mount boppu 3rd pigeon bay new roadfrom birdling junction to saddle at junction of summit roads 4th long bay roadfrom german bay saddle to grass hill beyond george bash sth onuku roadfrom akaro…
Original Correspondence (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 04 September 1883) · Papers Past, 4 Sept 1883
…epared to acquit itself of that responsibility the action it has taken in relation to the summit road will i believe eventuate in the prosecution of that work this will provide access to the railway f…

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

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.

Lookout Rock lookout · 294 m away Coronation Hill Reserve set of steps · 7 m away Coronation Hill Reserve set of steps · 16 m away Coronation Hill Reserve set of steps · 17 m away Coronation Hill Reserve set of steps · 28 m away Kennedys Bush set of steps · 61 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Summit Road in 41 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 16 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.