Silverstream Floodbank: Wingatui Road to Reid Avenue
Mosgiel · Otago
This walk was suggested by the community and checked against the authority quoted above before it was published. The route line comes from official track data. Dunedin City Council’s own wording: “Silverstream – the stop bank track on the true left of the Silverstream between Gordon and Wingatui Roads (Schedule C, other public places where dogs are allowed off leash, Tracks). Dogs must always be under control. (Dunedin City Council Dog Control Policy 2024, in effect from 5 May 2025. The true left is the bank on your left when you face downstream, which here is the Mosgiel town side, and it is the bank this walkway runs along. Reid Avenue meets the stop bank about 300 m upstream of the Gordon Road bridge, so this whole section sits inside the listed off leash stretch. The council’s dog walking page, updated 14 August 2026, lists Silverstream under the tracks and reserves where dogs are allowed.)”. Evidence: the council’s own mapped rule zone. How we check dog rules.
Good to know
Dogs are allowed here. Watch for ground-nesting birds and stock, and read the signs at the gate.
About Silverstream Floodbank: Wingatui Road to Reid Avenue
Silverstream Floodbank: Wingatui Road to Reid Avenue covers 2.9 km, near Mosgiel in Otago.
The Silver Stream flood bank on the town side of Mosgiel, from the car park on Wingatui Road down to the car park at the end of Reid Avenue, beside Memorial Park and the Te Puna o Whakaehu pool. It is a wide gravel stop bank track on top of the flood protection bank, flat the whole way, with the stream on one side and the backs of the Mosgiel streets on the other. Start at either end; Shona and Missy do it from car park to car park and back in a bit under an hour, about 2.9 km all up. It is well used by walkers and cyclists, there are rubbish bins at both ends, and Shona describes it as a very social place for meeting other dogs. This is one of the few tracks in Dunedin that the council names outright as off leash ground. Schedule C of the Dunedin City Council Dog Control Policy 2024 lists the stop bank track on the true left of the Silverstream between Gordon and Wingatui Roads among the public places where dogs are allowed off leash, and this section runs entirely inside it: Reid Avenue meets the bank about 300 m upstream of the Gordon Road bridge. The true left is the bank on your left when you face downstream, the town side, which is the side this walkway is on. Off leash in Dunedin still means under control, which the council spells out as being aware of where the dog is and what it is doing, having it responsive to commands and not creating a nuisance, and the Dog Control Act asks every owner to carry a leash in any public place. The car parks and the streets you arrive by are on leash by default, so the lead comes off on the bank. Two things to know at the water. Shona reports that toxic algae warning signs are up along the stream, and the Otago Regional Council’s advice is that dogs are particularly susceptible to poisoning from the algae mats, so keep the dog out of the water and off the exposed stony edges whenever a sign is up or the mats are visible, especially in warm, low flow months. There are magpies in the pines along this stretch; Shona says they have not been bothersome, but keep an eye on the dog in spring. Shona and Missy sent this one in, along with the next section downstream from Reid Avenue to Riccarton Road.
Expect easy going, with around 6 m of climb, and takes about 35 min to walk.
Dogs are welcome here. This walk is on the map because Shona & Missy suggested it, and we checked it against the source above.
