Memorial Park is the central city’s premier park.
Active Reserves Master Plan
As a growing city, we’re dedicated to improving the capacity and quality of the city-wide network of venues for sports, recreation, and events to benefit community wellbeing.
We’ve embarked upon a programme of work which considers multiple opportunities for community sport, recreation, events and high-performance training across Tauranga’s network of active reserves. As part of the process, we’ve developed the Active Reserves Master Plan to help guide short, medium and long-term investments by Council. Read more about the Active Reserves Master Plan below.
Active Reserves Master Plan
Memorial Park is the central city's premier park. The park makes up 11 hectares of land sitting next to the harbour between 11th and 7th Avenues.
Features of the park include:
- two very popular playgrounds
- a water fountain
- Humpty Dumpty! (He's 50 years old.)
- a skate ramp (half pipe)
- free barbeques
- memorial cenotaph
- Memorial Pools
- miniature railway and mini golf
- Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre and Memorial Hall
There are two large fields that are often used for events: Jordan Field and Memorial Field.
Public toilets are available at the Rowing Club building and at the rear of the QEYC, opposite the miniature rail station.
Information on the miniature railway is available on their Facebook page.