Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand4.5 (58 Google reviews)
What's on and what's here
Upcoming events
Nothing listed right now.
Plan the trip
Where to stay and what's nearby
Where to stay
Camping on the domain is the way to do a show weekend here. Otherwise Rangiora and Oxford are the nearest towns with beds, with Christchurch the wider base.
No stands or fixed seating. Flat open grass: you walk the show field at car level and stand for any stage programme.
Facilities
A public toilet block between the pavilion and the cricket shelter. The pavilion holds up to 30 people and has a wooden deck; the cricket shelter has a kitchenette. Picnic tables on site. Food on event weekends comes from the vendors the organiser brings in.
Plan your day
Getting there
By car only. Cust sits inland from Christchurch, about 17 km west of Rangiora and 16 km east of Oxford, and the domain is 1.5 km north of the village. There is no public transport to Cust; flights land at Christchurch. Everyday parking is a shingle area off the unsealed driveway beside the pavilion; event organisers lay out their own parking on the domain for show weekends.
Public transport
No public transport to Cust; car only.
Nearest airport
Christchurch Airport
Leaving the venue
Everything leaves by the same unsealed driveway it came in on, so after a big show expect a slow file out onto the road. On a quiet day you are straight out.
Camping
Event weekends run their own camping on the grass under the organiser's passes (the Cust Rumble sells camping passes and marks camping zones on its site map). Outside events the domain is listed as a free overnight stop for certified self contained motorhomes, first come, maximum three nights, with no camping in the car park beside the playground.
Good to know
Good to know
The track
A council owned rural domain 1.5 km north of the village of Cust in North Canterbury, between Rangiora and Oxford on the Inland Scenic Route 72. Open grass with a sports field and a playground, a small weatherboard pavilion with a deck, a concrete block cricket shelter with a kitchenette, picnic tables and a public toilet block, reached by an unsealed driveway with a shingle parking area. No track: shows here are laid out on the grass for the weekend, with camping zones, stages and vendor areas set up and gone again (the 2026 Cust Rumble site map marks camping zones, parking, stages, vendors and facilities across the domain). The village has motoring history of its own: Cust hosted New Zealand's motorcycle Grand Prix on its public roads from 1936 to 1963, drawing crowds of up to 25,000, before racing moved to Ruapuna in Christchurch.
