Choose your own route
Start where you like. Pick the places that intrigue you, then walk, bike or drive between them.
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Think you know Christchurch? There is more hiding in plain sight.
Turn a day out into an adventure. Use a beautifully printed map and your phone to uncover remarkable places, hidden histories and mini challenges across the city, at your own pace.
Printed map • No app required • $6.90 shipping • Secure Stripe checkout
45+
places to discover
1 map
for your group
60 days
to explore
Your pace
walk, bike or drive
A different kind of day out
Not a guided tour. Not a race.
Your own Christchurch adventure.
MarkThePast gives you the map and the stories, then leaves the day in your hands. Follow your curiosity, stop when you want and discover the city in a way that feels entirely your own.
Unlock the story on the spot
Use your phone to reveal the people, events and forgotten details connected to each place.
Make the day your own
Follow a mini challenge, chase a leaderboard score or simply slow down and enjoy the discovery.
No fixed route. No app. No rush.
Just a map, your phone and a city full of stories waiting to be noticed.
A glimpse of what is waiting
Places you may know.
Stories you probably don’t.
High above Whakaraupō Ō Kete Upoko
A rocky outcrop with a hard name and a tapu summit
One of 45+ discoveries on the map
Beside the Avon Ōtākaro Brick Wharf Cairn
The river landing that helped decide where Christchurch would be
One of 45+ discoveries on the map
In the city’s eastern wetlands Travis Wetland
A seasonal pantry, a bird city, and a future being rebuilt
One of 45+ discoveries on the map
See the familiar differently
Most of us move through Christchurch with somewhere else to be. We pass small monuments, old tracks, wetlands, bridges and windswept hilltops without ever knowing what happened there; or why the place still matters.
MarkThePast changes the pace.
One control might lead you to an unassuming cairn beside the Avon Ōtākaro that helped determine where the new city would stand. Another takes you high above Whakaraupō to a beautiful but deeply tapu place whose name holds a hard history. Elsewhere, a suburban wetland reveals an older landscape that was once pantry, workshop and home.
You decide what to discover and how far to go. Follow a theme, chase points, build a route across the city or simply choose the next place that sparks your curiosity.
The map gets you there. The story changes what you see.
Simple to start
Three steps. Then the city is yours.
Get your map
Your printed Christchurch map is delivered with a unique activation code.
Activate on your phone
Enter the code once to unlock every location, story, audio track and challenge.
Choose where the day goes
Pick a control, make your own route and uncover Christchurch one place at a time.
Get the Christchurch edition — $29.90
One-time purchase • $6.90 shipping
Made for curious people
Who will you take with you?
Locals who think they know Christchurch
See familiar streets, hills and landmarks through stories you may never have heard.
Families and friends after a real day out
One shared map creates an affordable adventure for the whole group.
Couples looking for something different
Swap the usual plans for a day built around curiosity, conversation and discovery.
Visitors who want more than the usual highlights
Explore Christchurch through the places and stories that give the city its character.
Adventure with purpose
Every Christchurch map helps support Christchurch City Mission.
“Our past can help our future”
A portion of proceeds from every Christchurch edition supports people doing it tough in our city.
Good to know
Questions before you set out
Do we have to complete it all in one day? +
No. Choose as many or as few locations as you like. Your digital access lasts 60 days from first activation, so you can turn it into one big day or several smaller adventures.
Does everyone need their own map? +
No. One map can support up to 4 phones, making it easy to explore together as a family or group.
Do I need to download an app? +
No. Activate the code from your map and open the stories in your phone’s web browser.
How do we get between locations? +
That is up to you. Walk, run, bike or drive. The controls are spread across Christchurch, and you choose the route and pace that suits your day.
Can I give MarkThePast as a gift? +
Absolutely. It arrives as a physical map, and the 60-day digital access begins only when the recipient activates it.
Your next adventure is already here
Christchurch is full of stories.
Go and find them.
Get the first edition, choose your first location and see where curiosity takes you.
$6.90 shipping • Secure Stripe checkout
Christchurch edition
$29.90 + shipping