Long Bay Regional Park

Great beach and park. Playground has always been fun, since I was a child, through all its changes. Good beach to swim in, very popular in summer. Great park areas for sports, picnics and BBQs — the BBQs are already there! Beautiful place too. Just see the pictures. Can get some sweet snapchats when you’re there!

Great place for a family day out on a hot summer day. Long extensive beach with heaps of grassy picnic areas to enjoy. TONS of parking and lots of picnic tables and bbq areas. Bring a picnic and spend a lazy afternoon at one of the best beaches in Auckland :)

The discovery of such a nice place as Long Bay regional park was a very rewarding and fun experience. In my opinion, it combines all sorts of activities, which can only be found in separate places.
First off, there is a long and beautiful beach. It is quite long to have a walk, as well as nice to looks at, especially at the end where the track begins.
Second, the track, which later transforms into a very big lawn and a cool place to take photos. Especially, when there are some sheep there.
And finally, the great lawn in front of the beach with lots of FREE barbecues (need prior booking), an empty picture frame where you can take a photo of the place itself or a person, large parking and quite a number of table to eat your food.
The only downside is that during summer, and especially public holidays, it cat take up to 1 hour just to enter the park on the car! A lot of cars there during this period.

Auckland really is a beautiful city with so many outdoor beauties.
Long Bay Regional Park is a sure winner, and a superb place to take the little ones on the weekend.
On my recent second mother’s day, my family and I travelled to Long Bay to take part in the Free Volunteer Tree Planting at Long Bay Regional Park.
Parking close to the awesome kid’s playground with flying fox, we had a 15 minute uphill walk to the park location that had been chosen for planting. This event had been organised by the wonderful Auckland City Council.
The stunning weather really brought out the serenity of mother nature. Aucklander’s and foreigners showed up from all around to plant kowhai’s, flax, cabbage trees and more.
This beautiful park has so much to offer; a slice of paradise where young and old can come, relax and enjoy nature in its purest form.
I recommend taking one of the many walks through tracks labelled in the park, or even enjoying leisure time walking or running in your spare time.
You have so much on offer, whether you want to do nothing or do lots.
The ocean is at the parks edge, so be sure to stroll on the beautiful long beach and take a swim in the glorious ocean too.

My son love wild buggy rides and he loves it when we go for long walks, plus it is good for my health too, I guess. I normally plan my afternoon walks at the long Bay Park due to the long rolling lawns and the easy access to the beach, plus you can almost always get parking there.
The young tyke is still reluctant to venture on to the grass, but he loves playing ball and eating the leaves. There is plenty of shade, and most of the time we can avoid the larger crowds and the picnics.
The park is also great for photo shoots, and I recently used it as a backdrop for wedding pictures; making use of the historic home, driftwood and the large trees. It is a one stop shop, and you’re normally free to do your own thing; great in this day and age where everyone wants money for everything.
Plus it makes the amateur photographer look good, so my client was happy, and I loved the praise.

This is the ultimate spot for barbeque’s, family picnics, birthday parties, kiddie’s outings to the park, or just a day relaxing at the beach. The park sits directly on the beachfront at Long Bay and even though its a bit out of the way its really worth it considering once you get there It doesn’t feel like you’re in Auckland… it doesn’t even feel like you’re on the North Shore. I actually hadn’t been here in years since a school camp when I was really young until a couple of weekends ago when a friend of ours had their kid’s birthday party there. Before we got to the park he reminded us what to look for so we could find them and I thought this was bit little silly (of course we’ll find you, duh) but actually he was right — this place is huge! There’s so many people there on the weekends for all these sorts of things but it doesn’t feel overcrowded due to the size. There’s toilet/​shower facilities and one of the best playgrounds I’ve seen and even an ice-​cream shop (more like a hut) in the middle which had a steady stream of customers the whole time we were there. The other thing I noticed was everybody we saw here seemed to really respect the place — they packed up and took all their rubbish and it was just a good vibe in general. Great summer spot I’ll go back again for sure.