Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Canterbury > Christchurch > Halswell Quarry Lake Track
Halswell Quarry Lake Track
- Location
- 1 km along Kennedy’s Bush Road.
- Description
Halswell Quarry is a unique 60.4 hectare park, with an unusual combination of recreational walks, historic sites and botanical collections. Important historic buildings from the quarrymen’s days are being preserved and the once noisy rock face is now a quiet amphitheatre facing onto a parkland of short walks and wetland ponds.
Following the grassy crescent through the amphitheatre of the quarry, this short route provides the best way to appreciate the remarkable shapes in the rock. A narrow lake along the base of the rockface provides a pleasant habitat for wildlife, well, a few ducks at least. At the western end of the arc, a layer of columnar basalt is visible, overtopped by a curving layer of Halswell Stone and scree. Further along the red scoria and ash deposits from later eruptions are visible. At the eastern The eastern horn of this crescent reveals the dramatic jagged walls of the broken Halswell Stone.
- Level
- Easy
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Carpark
- Dogs Allowed
- Historical
- Plant Life
- Toilets
- Source
- www.tramper.co.nz
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