Street view goes bush

You can now explore more stunning Council tracks and reserves on Google Street View before visiting them in real life!

Several volunteers including Council staff (and their families and members of the Nelson Mountain Bike Club), gave up their free time earlier this year to walk our best tracks and parks. The Google Trekker was used to capture 360 degree imagery of our amazing local sites. It is an 18kg off road street view camera which captures a panorama every 2.5 seconds as the user walks along.

The result is a fabulous virtual tour.

It’s easy to check out the footage.

1. Go to Google Maps
2. Enter the name of the location you want to explore i.e. Haulashore Island
3. When Google maps zooms in on the location click and drag the little yellow person icon (at the bottom right corner of the screen) and drop it anywhere on the blue lines that appear to explore that location
4. Start exploring!

It’s a great way to explore some of our remote parks and trails and hopefully it inspires you to visit in person. Below is the list of the locations around the Nelson area that are now available on street view.  

Reserves and places of interest

• Haulashore Island
• Lighthouse
• Centre of New Zealand 
• Grampians Reserve 
• Isel Park
• Rutherford Park
• Trafalgar Park
• Pipers Park
• Fairfield Park
• Melrose House
• Miyazu Gardens
• Queens Gardens
• Church Hill

Tracks, Trails and Paths

• Dun Mountain Trail
• Maitai Walkway
• Sir Stanley Whitehead walkway
• Whanake, Codgers Park
• P51, Codgers Park
• Tasman Journeys, Codgers Park
• Te Ara Koa
• Days Track
• Tamaki Street Steps
• Railway Reserve
• Firball 
• Jacks Track 
• Middle Road
• Crazy Horse 
• TMTYL Track
• Top dog
• Turners