Silo Park

This little park is awesome in the summer. Summer festivals with music, food caravans and vendors and Friday open air movies projected onto the Silo’s.

Sweet little park for young and old– aptly named for the giant silos that were onced used to hold cement. Awesome colourful paintings on them now as well to admire. Great especially during the summer with hustle and bustle of exhibitions, activations, the open-​air cinemas on Silo7, outdoor dance workshops and markets. Great basketball court, cool playground with a wide manner of play-​things and cool water sculpture pool to admire. Keep heading forward to get to Wynyard Quarter.

Have been to Silo Park a few times, most recently for the Finders Keepers Market — a themed market for all things retro and vintage. Was pretty cool. Actually pretty bloody hot in the sun really! There was surprisingly only a small food vans onsite to feed the massive crowd. The Mexican/​Latino chicken wrap I got was tasty but very small for the $ 8 spent, and I waited in line in the hot sun for… ok, I didnt actually time it, but a very long time! The long line of people behind me were eventually told that it would take over 20mins to get there wraps or nachoes which turned quite a few away. The man taking the orders was friendly and trying his best to politely hurry the two hard working young cooks along, a smile never leaving his face.
The atmosphere was fun, they had a few vintage cars on display, lots of cool clothes to buy and ample grass to lounge around on. The area has really been turned around into an urban, creative people friendly place to visit. Look forward to seeing what else arises… word on the street (and Unilocal!).is they are hosting movies each Fri in summer too, go Silo!

Silo Park is a brilliant place to visit with your children and/​or partner. I have experienced fantastic experiential events here including the ‘Cadbury’ chalk art a couple of years back. They recently had the Santa Bach in the Silo that previously housed the (user-​friendly) piano! There is the ‘Silo Park Marina’ that backs onto the park which sports beautiful boats with great eye-​candy aboard! Silo do movie nights that are family-​friendly, other music gigs, pop-​up markets & shops and generally have decent public loos. I love the concrete garden mixed with the green — that I have spent many days filming, photographing and indulging in this urban landscape. Next door is ‘Wynyard Quarter’ that promises outstanding restaurants including Miss Clawdy, Baduzzi’s & other gastronomy. Fab spot for people-​watching too; the world at your feet.

Sobre el Wynyard quarter, es uno de los sitios recuperados de la bahía de Auckland. Muy recomendado para ir por las noches, pues suelen pasar pelis en pantalla gigante sobre los silos y se arman ferias gastronómicas donde se puede disfrutar una muy linda noche a precios muy competitivos.
Super recomendado para pasar un buen momento en la ciudad más importante de Nz.

LOVE what Aucklands been up to lately! I feel like over the past decade and particularly the last five years we have transformed into a cool city with lots of great public spaces. Silo park is the epitome of this with it’s markets, free concerts, free dance lessons on a Sunday, basketball hoops, water features and much more! They also have a great range of events in the Silos themselves such as art exhibitions with my favourite two thus far being the time lapse of NZ landscapes with accompanying music through headphones while lounging on beanbags and if course Tom Gould and Anna Delanys Two of a Kind exhibition. Added bonus that you can go for a fish off the rocks a bit further down
Keep up the great work Silo Park!

I don’t know why I dont hang out here more often. Chill space with something to do for everyone. Bring a basketball for the hoops. Togs for the wee ones to play in the water feature.
Market days/​nights are great fun. Short walk from the Northwharf/​Wynyard Quarter.
Close to the water which is what I love about it. Can’t say I’ve found where that outdoor piano has been hiding lately though.

One of my favourite places in Auckland! I was at Silo Park almost every Friday night last summer for the night market and free movies. After work drinks, dinner-​pic-​nic on the grass, a good oldie and there you go, perfect relaxing Friday night!
It gets a bit crowded on those nights but Silo Park is also a great place to hang out during the day or to bring visitors to have a nice view on the Harbour Bridge or the city.

Silo Park is a welcome addition to Auckland’s Viaduct. The area, which was once a rather unsightly cement depot, has been redesigned to cleverly incorporate the old concrete silos to encourage a flurry of outdoor activity. The expansive lawn and nearby eateries make Silo Park the perfect spot for al fresco dining. During summer come here on a Friday night for a bite to eat at the ever-​growing silo markets and then settle in for a screening of a classic movie projected onto silo number 7

Silo park is really as good as it gets.
This was a set up done by young kiwi collaborators deciding it was time to get something exciting happening int he city during summer months to bring kiwis together. I know the people that run Silo Park and those that work in it during the weekends and special weekday events. It is truly run by people that care and are actively trying to make a difference in the Auckland culture scene.
Silo Park hosts different events throughout its presence, not just screenings of old movies (although that is really fun too). For example it also hosts and promotes Fringe Festival which is a recurring performing arts type festival celebrated in New Zealand. They also present Silo Sessions — free community events held in honour of occasions like the Christchurch earthquake for example.
There are neat little stalls run by mostly independent kiwi businesses, another way of supporting the locals.
It really is a brilliant set up and people have been and are continually really enjoying it.

Decided that my boyfriend and I would come here on Valentines day because they were showing one of my favourite childhood movies, The Princess Bride. We decided to go early, around 7pm with the movie starting at 9pm… big mistake! We should have left much much earlier as everyone else had the same idea. All the beanbags that they offer (which is awesome by the way) were taken. I had brought along a small blanket and some pillows but they weren’t enough, it got very cold and uncomfortable, I wished that I had been smarter like other people and taken camp chairs and worn a big jacket. The food stalls on offer are fab but make sure you take some cash as a lot of them don’t accept Eftpos. We ended up leaving before the movie had started, but that was no fault of Silo Parks, only our own. I will definitely be going again, I will just make sure that I am more prepared next time!

My favorite thing about Silo park is that there is no official liquor ban there. This means it’s a great place to go on a cheap date with a bottle of cider and sit by the water, or perhaps play the piano that is situated within one of the old grain tanks.
The other great thing about Silo park is that it is also fast becoming one of Auckland’s event hot spots. They have a regular programme of events — movie nights, bands, and even the Laneway festival was recently held there.
The park is edged by restaurants and bars, and entrance to it is via a bridge which goes up and down for boats to go under, something that seems to really excite little kids. There is a (seemingly pointless) metal walkway, which admittedly allows for a semi decent viewing of the harbour, although an equally good one can be had if you walk round to the edge of the dock. There are plenty of superyachts streaming in and constantly so you can get a chance to see how the other half (or 1 percent) really live.

Another place that makes my inner town planner well up with pride. Auckland’s glorious waterfront until recently has somehow been locked away from its citizens — but no longer. The Wynyard Quarter development has opened up whole new chunks of waterfront for Aucklanders to explore, and the jewel in its crown is Silo Park.
There’s so much to this park that it’s hard to know where to start. There’s the Wind Tree sculpture under which kids can often be found messing about in the paddle pool. Adjacent, there’s a playground and basketball court. Further on is a gantry for climbing and taking in the views, while the namesake silos themselves stand sentinel over the western end of the park. Beneath, a collection of heritage yachts are moored at a wharf from which some of the best views of the harbour bridge can be found. There’s also a piano that moves about the park that anyone can play — a small touch that somehow makes the place feel communal.
The park itself is great, but it’s the constant stream of events that really give the place life. Every Friday in summer the silos are used for open air cinema which is universally popular. The Silo Markets (selling all sorts of interesting food and crafts) and Silo Sessions (live music/​DJ sets) are other regular events. Finally, the headline event is the fantastic Laneway Festival held every January, showcasing the very best in indie rock and roll.
In short, there really is something for everyone in Silo Park — every Aucklander needs to visit it.

Silo park is an amazing new addition to Auckland (as of the 2011 rugby world cup), and one that was certainly needed. With a mix of hosting music festivals, markets, and outdoor movies, the Silo area is the ultimate cool new hangout. There have been wonderful graffiti artists who have helped give the newly established area some artistic flare, along with a good selection of bars, restaurants and cafes 50m up at Wynyard Quarter.
My favourite use of this area is on a Friday night in summer when they show a movie on one of the silo’s and have a late night market. The outdoor movies start screening in warm November and roughly finish end of March when it starts getting a little cooler. Kick off time for the movie is generally at 9:30pm after a short film which usually starts at 9pm once the summer sun goes down. The evening markets and food stalls completely compliment this evening outing. I love getting churros when at the movie as a naughty evening treat. If dessert is jumping the gun and you’re yet to have had dinner there is also a wide range of places to eat; mexikai, burgers, pizza and more.
This extension of Auckland CBD is also just a great place to come and relax, getting out of the hussle and bussle of city life.

Think of this park as the cool younger sibling to all of the others in Auckland. Silo is the one that’s home to Auckland’s coolest festival, Laneway, every year. Silo is the one that plays free movies on a Friday night during the summer and Silo is the one with the wicked market in it every Saturday afternoon. If I were a park, I’d want to be this one.
Located in the trendy Wynyard Quarter, (just head towards the huge eponymous Silos and you’ll find it) Silo Park is a place where there is always something going on. Apart from the aforementioned, it is also home to the Silo Sessions, a monthly live music event that showcases new and unsigned musical talent from around New Zealand as well as countless other free exhibitions that take place on its grass.
They always have great food vans down there on the movie nights selling a wide range of food from burritos and churros to Heavenly Pies. It’s worth going down there for those alone!