When I first came to live in New Zealand, I lived in Glen Eden. I had never visited Waikumete Cemetery until today. What an amazingly beautiful and fascinating place.
The Waikumete Cemetery takes up a huge area between Great North and West Coast Roads, with beautiful landscaping and fabulous trees. And there is so much history here – from the 1918 flu epidemic and the Gallipoli soldiers to the mausoleums of the wine magnates of Corbans and Nobilo. It is really worth visiting. Dogs on-leash.
You may decide to arrive by train to Glen Eden railway station and make this a day outing.
The ‘Pumped Cafe‘ at the station has good coffee and food or there is a new Columbus cafe on the corner of Oates Road/West Coast Road.
Find this and other West Auckland walks at the Walks Store
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