{"id":277113,"date":"2026-02-10T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:51:15","slug":"papamoa-hills-park-closure-new-walking-track-planned-after-storm-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277113\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u0101p\u0101moa Hills park closure: New walking track planned after storm damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">The alternative track would restore access to the main walking track while repairs continue across the rest of the park.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Walking tracks at the P\u0101p\u0101moa Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park were damaged during severe weather in January. Photo \/ Bay of Plenty Regional Council\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Walking tracks at the P\u0101p\u0101moa Hills Cultural Heritage Regional Park were damaged during severe weather in January. Photo \/ Bay of Plenty Regional Council<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know how eager people are to return to the park and get back out on the tracks. While this work is under way, we ask everyone to respect the closure and stay out of the park, for their safety and for the safety of our crews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">All access points to the park are currently closed, including the Summerhill Carpark entry and both Poplar Lane carparks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">Staff had been working closely in partnership with mana whenua to ensure all decisions continued to respect the cultural and environmental significance of the site, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alternative track would restore access to the main walking track while repairs continue across the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[542,74,17163,5205,24181,22510,8231,5504,8993,21520,140711,117,111,43,139,69,8143,26346,23282,25443,3109,5914,23365,312,2848,673,22974,4770,4998,6436,4576],"class_list":["post-277113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-access","tag-after","tag-closure","tag-council","tag-cultural","tag-damage","tag-event","tag-following","tag-heritage","tag-hills","tag-januarys","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-planned","tag-ppmoa","tag-progressing","tag-public","tag-regional","tag-restore","tag-says","tag-severe","tag-storm","tag-track","tag-walking","tag-weather","tag-well","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}