Battle Hill Farm Forest Park

“Third time coming here and always leave with a happy feeling! This time we went on a picnic and continued with a one-day camp. We found spots near the graveyard, the streams and campfire area. After the picnic, we decided to visit the barn area (see the cattle calf, little deer, guinea pig, rabbits, chicken, eels), and continued to do a little walk to the hills (purple track) one hour returns. When we arrived at the hills, we saw SH1 between the hills and in the farm area we saw many sheep and cows surrounded by beautiful picturesque hills. Easy track and kid friendly, based on the information board. The farm can only be entered on weekends (just ensure to read the information board about the track). The camp area that we chose, unfortunately, the ground has gravel, so make sure before build the tent that the ground is flat so we can easily nail the tent ropes. There was only a 2-spot toilet area, near the barn and before the streams, with no toilet shower in this camp area. During summer, especially on a good sunny day, the area peaks with people not only for camping but also for picnics. There was a pool near the stream. We could swim there, many kids and adults jumped from the rocks to the pool. Just beware, there were eels living in there. So overall, we really recommend this place.”

“Love this place my children love this place also as we go to wrda and egala both my children and the people here and workers are absolutely amazing feels like one big whanau this place has alot you can see nature and all that comes with this place its a must see place to bring your children and even bring along your grandparents they all would love it here don't have to be apart of the programs here to be able go have a look around the area but horse you have to ask to be able to go that side as its therapy horses 🐎 at wrda and private but rest the outter section you may freely walk around and interact kindly towards the rest of the other animals there but no feeding you dont wanna harm the animals there by giving them foods that may not be safely allowed to consume animals may get sick if given wrong type of foods anyways you can go say hello to sheep's ducks eels ect but no feeding unless you asked farmer or worker other than that this is a relaxing lovely place to come see even now has a cool playground/activities children may do must go to place .....”

“Great for putting the tent up for a few nights. Especially if you are just beginners and want to try out putting the tent up and are new to camping. This is a great family camp ground with fire pits at most sites (finding enough bits of wood took a bit of work but the fire was the kids favourite part) friendly sheep, very very friendly goats, eels who love the extra sausages cooked on the barbecue and Guinea pigs to name a few.”