Mount Ada, Canterbury, New Zealand - Peak Directory

Mount Ada

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Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023

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520m

Height

Distance away

-43.62726, 172.62680

Coordinates

BX24 6989 6946

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Mount Ada can be accessed on the trails Lyttelton to Diamond Harbour, Halswell and Kennedys, The Bowenvale Elevator, The Gorsetrack Strikes Back, Rapaki Sugarloaf Return, Sign Of The Takahe - Rapaki, Port Hills Nearly Half Marathon, Whigs' Flying Fifty (WFF), VKV challenge, Banks Peninsula Ultra Beer Run, Bowenvale / Huntsbury Loop, Gondola Gallop, The ATH (Around The Harbour), Lava - H.ELL Loop, The Guv'nor & His Birds, The Crater Rim, Lava Lite, Takahe Half, Port Hills Spur Challenge!, Up Hill Down Valley, Pour Some Sugarloaf On Me, Never Trust A Crocodile, Holliss Stairway to Heaven, Mt Vernon Farm Track , Vicki Vale, Christchurch 360 Trail - Sugarloaf Hills Section, Little Learner Loop (Halswell Quarry) , Bird to Bird, Port Hills Protocol, Bodybag, O'Farrells For Shore, The Governator, Quail Island Looping, The Chairlift Choice, Governator 2 - Judgement Day, Loopy in Siberia, The North Faces, Westmorland Hill Reps, Rocking Gibraltar, Hey Sisters!, Living Springs Loop, The Missing Link, Beginner's Adventure Park Loop, Port Hills 8-Attack, Takahe to Taylors, Omahu Anne's Falls & Gibraltar Loop, Dry Run to Tamatea's Leap, 2 Sugars, 2 Vernons & a Half Shot, Adventure to the Backside, Victoria's Secrets, Upper East Side hill reps, Cracroft Wetlands and The Coronation of Anthony from our trail directory.

David Hosking

Super views and a real reward for the climb from Halswell Quarry. Section to the top from Crater Rim Track very overgrown when I did it and tough going...

David Hosking

February 3, 2022

Tony Sharpe

Mt Ada is reached on a short diversion track from the Crater Rim track. It is also the summit of the popular Halswell and Kennedy's Trail Directory run. The peak derives its name from Ada, wife of the famous Harry Ell who established the Port Hills as a recreation / tourism destination in the first half of the 20th century. Mt Ada affords one of the best, most popular and most prominent viewing points in all of the Port Hills.

Tony Sharpe

October 14, 2021

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