Flagstaff-Pineapple Walkway

The area has an interesting history. In pioneering times a flag was hoisted on Flagstaff Summit whenever a ship entered the harbour, whereupon the male-dominated population would flock into the city in the hope of finding a wife.

The pineapple part of the name was adopted by parties of trampers who would rest at the top of a steep section to refresh themselves with tins of pineapple, often leaving the tins hanging in trees or on a fence.

The walkway links with a number of other walking tracks in the area.

The Pineapple Track climbs the southeastern slopes of Flagstaff to Pineapple Junction. Starting at the small parking space at the junction of Fulton Road and Booth Road. Follow the gravelled track up through mixed native bush, exotic firs and pines until you reach Booth Road. Take a left at Booth Road, which leads to a water-treatment station, before re-entering the bush behind the buildings. The Pineapple track continues up through native bush comprised of broadleaf, fuchsia, manuka, wineberry and coprosmas, with native mistletoes sporadically lurking in native divaricate shrubs and Broadleaf. The track emerges onto grassland and scrub to climb steeply up to Pineapple Junction. As you climb up the grassy section of the Pineapple Track, be sure to look behind you from time to time for beautiful views of central Dunedin. Turn left here and continue uphill for 1.5 km to the top of Flagstaff.