Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Nelson > Nelson City > Orphanage Creek
Orphanage Creek
- Location
- Start this walk from the Saxton Field where the netball courts are on Saxton Road East, left off Main Road Stoke
- Description
This is a walkway that takes in Saxton Field, the esplanade reserve and Orphanage creek. Suitable for baby buggies.
Start from the netball courts and head back towards Main Road, Stoke and across the footbridge to your right to take in the pond. Return over the bridge onto the playing fields and walk around the permeter of the park. Take the track behind the hockey field and emerge onto Suffolk Road. Follow it past the right turn to Clairmont Heights, then further along to the left turn into the walkway through to Caroline Place. Walk down Caroline Place and right onto Kingsford Drive, then along to the walkway on your left (just before Gershwin Grove). Follow this walkway to the esplanade reserve along Orphanage Creek which gets its name from the orphanage which used to be sited further up the valley. On the other side of the creek you can enjoy views of the original Harcourt Homestead. Follow the creek left, all the way to Saxton Road and return to your starting point.
Refer Walk Nelson for more details and a map of this walk.
- Duration
- 1.0 hours
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Carpark
- Dogs Allowed
- Historical
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Playground
- Toilets
- Source
- Walk Nelson 2007 – Nelson City Council
- Discussion
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