Access
40 Mona Vale Avenue, Fendalton, or off Fendalton Road. There is free onsite parking via the Mona Vale Avenue entrance.
The 29 Airport–City via Fendalton stops just a two-minute walk from the entrance. Visit the Metro Christchurch(external link) website for more information on bus routes and timetables as they are subject to change.
The Northern Line and Uni-Cycle cycleways also take you to Mona Vale – just turn onto Mona Vale Ave from Matai Street East. See our Christchurch cycle map(external link) for details.
Group visits
Groups can be dropped off at the Fendalton Road entrance, wander along beside the river through the gardens, then be picked up by their bus on Mona Vale Avenue or vice versa.
There is coach parking outside the grounds off Mona Vale Avenue.
Gates open
| Month | Opening hours |
| November to February | 7am to 9pm |
| March | 7am to 8pm |
| April | 7am to 6.30pm |
| May to August | 7am to 5.30pm |
| September | 7am to 6pm |
| October | 7am to 7pm |
Ring Armourguard 0800 007 009 to release locked in vehicles at owner's expense.
Historic Place Category 1 listed building with 
Historic Place Category 2 listed building with 
The lodge at the Mona Vale Avenue entrance was probably built in 1898, before the main homestead, by the same architect Joseph Clarkson Maddison.
The bathhouse at Mona Vale was added by Annie Townend between 1905 and 1914 and was built to resemble her the conservatory at her father's Glenmark station. The bathhouse was visually linked to the fernery and now gone conservatory and glasshouse by the use of filigree ridge cresting. It differs from similar Victorian conservatories and glasshouses as it is built from finely crafted timber and glazing bars instead of steel.
Originally built for the New Zealand International Exhibition in 1907, the fernery and its contents were sold to then owner of Mona Vale, Annie Townend, the richest woman in the South Island at the time.
