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10 months after closing as a result of the Port Hills Fires, the Christchurch Adventure Park is set to reopen its doors to the public again this summer.

Originally opened in December last year, the adventure attraction was devastated by fire in February. Now, after considerable recovery work, the Park’s 200 seat café, chairlift, sightseeing, zip line tours and a coaching mountain bike trail will reopen on Tuesday 5th December2017.

Explaining her delight at reopening of the facility, Christchurch Adventure Park spokesperson, Anne Newman stated “it has been a really tough year.

“Not only have we had to deal with the fires and rebuild we have also had one of the wettest winters on record. This has meantthat the logging and subsequently the trail building have been significantly impacted.

“Unfortunately you can’t take out the volume of trees that needed to be removed without damaging our trails.

“What we have been left with is a hillside that is totally unrecognisable (so) it is really important for the public to understand that it will take some time to rebuild all the trails we had prior to the fire. “When we re-open we will have the coaching/green trail available and we’ll reopen other trails over summer as they are finished.

“We’ve also planned some spectacular new trails for the public to ride. But it will take time.”

The fire saw the Park close for 10 months while logging of approximately 600 acres took place.

Work has seen the 26 tonne haul rope for the chairlift replaced along with all four zip lines while park staff continue to rebuild the existing mountain bike trails.

A significant section of the park has been replanted already. The village containing the café, bike rental and guest services was fortunate to have escaped the fire.

Newman added “we’d like to thank the community for their ongoing support, it has got us through some dark days and we know they will be understanding as we gradually reopen trails as soon as they are rebuilt.”

The Christchurch Adventure Park officially opened on 16th December 2016 with New Zealand’s longest chairlift at 1.8 kilometres long and New Zealand’s longest and highest zip line. It was open for just eight weeks before it was closed down due to the Port Hills Fires on 13th February.

In its eight short weeks of operation it attracted over 50,000 visitors. 

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