The lift and ziplines have suffered significant damage, and the park's condition was much worse than the operator initially thought.

[1][2] Fiona Sutton, the founder of Select Evolution and the company's president, spent almost four years in Christchurch to make the development happen.

[4] The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) gave approval in March 2016, after which construction work began.

[5] Parts for the park's chairlift and much of the bike rental fleet were stuck in Wellington after the port was damaged in the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, but this did not cause a delay to the planned opening.

[8] This grant was given on the condition that the park was to be open by December 2016, which forced the developer to proceed at a high speed after construction started.

[1] Much of the balance of the rural land in Cashmere Valley is owned by either the McVicar family, or by Christ's College – one of the local Christchurch schools.

[2] The park features a 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) chairlift that gains 435 metres (1,427 ft) height, and has a capacity of 1,200 riders and their bikes per hour.

[2] When the park opened, the chairlift gave access to 50 kilometres (31 mi) of downhill tracks of different levels of difficulty, and the restaurant can seat 180 people.

[1] In October 2016, 1500 passes were put up for sale, giving exclusive access to the park when it first opened and valid until September 2017.

It was one of two fires on the Port Hills, which were being fought by many helicopters with monsoon buckets and fixed wing planes.

[citation needed] The Rural Fire Authority handed the park back to the operator on 10 March 2017.

[19] Due to risk of rock and tree fall on much of the sloped land, the operator has not been able to assess the damage fully, but announced that "it's not going to be a quick fix".

The park then reviewed its pricing with reductions in annual passes and introduced no charges for under ten year olds.

[25] In April 2021, the Christchurch Adventure Park was found negligent and ordered by the high court to pay $12 million to the homeowners whose properties were destroyed and damaged in the Port Hills fires in 2017.