This morning, at 9.04am, Whanganui Mayor Andrew Tripe lifted the State of Local Emergency for Whanganui District following heavy rain in the upper catchment over the early hours of Sunday.
Cooks Gardens is located in central Whanganui. It includes a multi-purpose stadium with an all-weather synthetic 400m athletic track, a wooden cycling velodrome and grandstands. Cooks Gardens is also Whanganui’s premier rugby ground.
Next to the track is a unique elevated venue – known as the Cooks Gardens Events Centre – which is suited to conferences, meetings, product launches and weddings.
Toilets and drinking fountains are on-site.
Cooks Gardens is famous as the venue where Peter Snell in 1962 broke Herb Elliott’s world mile record on a grass track, covering the distance in three minutes 54.4 seconds.
Whanganui Venues and Events manage this venue, along with all track and field and velodrome bookings.
Maria Pl, Whanganui 4500 View Map
Maria Pl , Whanganui 4500