Cornwall Park

To an urban nemophilist like me, Cornwall Park is simply paradise! It is a well designed urban park with lots of open green spaces, wild-​life, recreational facilities and best of all; lots of beautiful trees. All-​in-​all, making it the perfect place to enjoy a little peace and quiet or get some regular exercise. Either way, you’ll leave feeling more relaxed and rejuvenated. Cornwall Park is indeed a green space that leads to happiness!
Ps. watch out for any flight taking flocks of crazy pigeons… if you’re in their path, they’ll fly right at you!

Cornwall Park is my go to for outdoor exercise in Auckland. Great size to walk/​run around with large open spaces and the cutest Lambs.
Limited spaces to BBQ and when I was there on the weeked it seamed like the park was packed with half of Auckland visiting. Would recommend the Cornwall Park Café as a place to stop off and grab a coffee or icecream.
Great view from the top of the rest of Auckland good place to bring international visitiors for them to get an idea of the size of Auckland.

Every time I go to Cornwall Park I wonder why I don’t visit more often. It truly is an Auckland gem. And so… my 300^th (?!) review is a tribute to you, Sir John Logan Campbell, for gifting this beautiful, vast (45 hectares worth!) of green space to the people of New Zealand.
Cornwall Park/​One Tree Hill Domain was one of the very first spots I explored after moving to Auckland. What I remember most from that first visit? The roaming lambs. Yes, Cornwall park is home to lots & lots of cute little lambs. Be prepared to pass through lots of swinging gates and frolic amongst them (optional but highly recommended).
Basically, you can do anything here. Off road running trails? Check. Group picnic/​barbecue spots? Yep. Biking? Definitely. Cherry blossoms? (October-​ish). Live music on Summer Sundays? Star gazing? Archery? Alllll of the above.
If I could just request on little teeny tiny? change, city of AKL — could we maybe close off some areas of the park to car traffic? It would really promote the peacefulness in the park and well, y’all know how I feel about cars… :)

Lambs !! Daffodils, swooping lorikeets! What more could you ask for ?
This is what feels like the center of Auckland .
Best. Park. EVER !!!

Huge park next to Green Lane hospital with lots of interesting features. A nice location for a Sunday stroll, or a sweaty one to the top of one tree hill. A great place to view the lambs in spring or the stars at night. Summer Sundays include live music. And there’s now a brand spanking new (and fab) café to enjoy. Take your grandma. She’ll love you for it!

No complaints — awesome for a walk/​run/​cycle/​picnic, or a cheeky shortcut if the maintenance gate is open.

Still enjoy walking round here, especially on a lovely Spring day with all the flowers showing off all their wonderful colours. It a such a peaceful location in a busy and vibrant suburb of The big A !!!

There’s nothing more I love than having a walk through Cornwall Park followed by a picnic. To me it is the epitome of a perfect summer day, however it’s also wonderful in the autumn and spring when the colours are bright orange and yellow matched against the green. Be sure to check out the café and have high tea there — so good!

Such a beautiful park– especially during spring and summer. Take a walk down the daffodil walk early spring time when all the flowers create a sea of yellow. You can also see all the new born lambs frolicking about.
So lucky to live so close to the park– I try to go walking everyday in the summer, you get an amazing view on a clear blue summer day. Breathe in fresh air and appreciate the beauty of NZ!

Amazing beautiful park all year round that is well tended to. There is a lovely café/​restaurant with great devonshire tea.
Great views of Auckland, with lovely livestock. Beware of poop on the footpath. Awesome time to go is around August/​September when all new lambs and calves are born.
Can be windy at the top so bring some layers to keep warm.

Cornwall park holds many fond memoreis for me. As a youngin I used to come here on weekends with my family and go rollerblading and have a massive picnic. It was always such a nice way to spend a day and writing this makes me wonder why I don’t still do it.
The place is massive and you can be there with a heap of other people and still feel like you stumbled upon something secret. The greenery is pretty stunning and the massive trees make for a very storybook feel.
You can take your lunch and stay for an hour, or take something to put on the public bbq and stay the whole day. It’s so accessible to many parts of inner Auckland that it acts as a sort of sanctuary in amongst all the mayhem.
It is home to One Tree Hill, which is now just a Hill, but it is still beautiful and a great place to look at the view from. There are many things to do there including watching live music, visiting the stardome, chilling at the café and grabbing an ice cream from the ice cream shop.
I recommend everyone get here at some point, even if it’s stormy — it is truly beautiful all year round.

I find this place so magical… it transports you to a place in Europe’s country land: green paddocks sprinkled with white fluffy sheep, grass knolls and giant forest trees to get lost amongst. It’s a great place for picnics and (if you are so inclined) a photo shoot! The park is massive so after a big lunch walk it off around the park. There are some small historic houses to look at (and a Zest Ice cream store near by!). On the One Tree Hill side of the park (not as nice) there is a planetarium and a playground complete with a flying fox. For best atmosphere and lighting, come in the afternoon/​evening a watch the hues of the sunset illuminate the grounds and the faces of people passing.

Cornwall Park was left as a gift to the city by Sir John Logan Campbell, and it’s definitely a way better gift then what I got for Christmas this year.
A lot of people still call Cornwall Park ‘one tree hill,’ despite the distinct lack of the «one» tree, and an overabundance of other trees dotting the grounds. The park is massive, my nana used to live across the road so I would go there every weekend for about six years — but I recently just discovered a whole new area with a waterfall.
There are heaps of activities in Cornwall park — bike riding, barbeques, disc golf, croquet — basically whatever you can do in a field, you can do at Cornwall.

I live super close to Cornwall Park so naturally it is a regular part of my life. I just adore it, such a nice walk all the way to the summit, quite challenging too if you are into fitness like me.
On a sunny evening my family and I always come up here to use their bbqs, they have both electric and wood fired bbqs on offer in two different sections of the park. Our favourites are the electric, Dad usually fires it up while we sit beside on a picnic blanket, honest to god life really doesn’t get much better.
I also always meet my friends here whether it’s for ‘walkies’ as we say, or just sitting for a while in the sun. My dog also thinks this place is pretty great, even though it is strictly on leash at all times there is still plenty to see and sniff as well as lots of other dogs to meet.

I have to say this is probably the best park in central Auckland, I love coming here with all that lovely fresh tree air, wonderful oxygen is in the air here, hug a tree and you will get some wonderful energy.
It has something for everyone, you can either take a stroll or run around the entire park, or have a BBQ or an ice cream and coffee. Feeling hungry, you can come here to the restaurant for breakfast or dinner and even high tea (oh sooo posh)
You can either drive up to the summit where the one tree used to be or you can choose to walk up to see the awesome views of Auckland, and what other park in central Auckland will you find cows and lambs, it’s all here at Cornwall Park
You can bring a bike, or even your roller blades, the choices are endless. There’s a playground area and there is even a planetarium.
What more could you ask for in a park really!

I grew up just down the road from Cornwall Park and it’s such a special place for me that I got married there at the end of 2011. It really is beautiful and so large that you can always find a peaceful private spot.
There are public barbeques and picnic spots and currently live music on Sundays at the Band Rotunda.
Home to One Tree Hill and its famous obelisk, one of the many things that makes Cornwall Park unique is that it also operates as an urban farm.
It has a restaurant, an ice cream shop, an archery club, a mega-​playground, a giant telescope, an historic cottage, and at different times of the year you can see the Japanese Cherry Blossoms in bloom, the cute spring lambs and so much more.
The playground is a whole other story in itself and I can truly say Cornwall Park holds a very special place in not only my heart, but many other Aucklanders’ and visitors’ as well. That Sir John Logal Campbell was a top bloke and I am very grateful to him for one of our city’s most stunning gifts.

This place always makes me feel like I’m somewhere in Europe. Especially the entrance way where you drive in. It is lined on both sides with gorgeous old trees, with interlocking branches forming a roof of sorts, making it feel like you’re driving on an old, European style country road.
The park is an ideal place for a run or just an afternoon picnic. It is also very popular as a wedding venue. I attended a wedding here early last year. It was an absolutely stunning day, and the park provided an amazing backdrop and atmosphere for what was a romantic and emotionally-​charged event.

der cornwall park umgibt den one tree hill und ist einer der größten parks in auckland. für wanderer und jogger gibt es hier sehr viele möglichkeiten von der sehr flachen ganz weiträumigen umrundung bis zum steilen anstieg auf den one tree hill. es gibt große grüné wiesen zum entspannen, cricketfelder, einen bogenschießplatz und oben auf dem one tree hill einen gedenkobelisken. grills mit überdachten parkbänken, natürlich alles umsonst und elektrisch mit möglichkeiten zum abwaschen direkt nebendran. einige wiesen sind mit kühen oder schafen als natürliche rasenmäher besetzt. auf der anderen seite der green lane gibt es denn die fortführung des parks, wo man den ganzen tag über rugbytrainings anschauen kann.