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Gardens
| Titoki Point Garden |
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Name: Titoki Point Garden
Location: Drive 15 mins north of Taihape or 5 mins south of Waiouru on SH1, take the Rangiwaea Junction turn off, Titoki is 22 km from this point and is approx 20 mins drive by car.
Phone: 06 388 0085
Email: titoki@farmside.co.nz
Open: 7 days, 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Admission: Adults $8.00 and Children $2.00
"Titoki Point, considered to be one of the finest private gardens in New Zealand".
"It's dramatic setting, splendid landscaping and artistic use of rare and unusual plants make this large garden a truly fascinating place". | |
Walks & Tracks
| Kawhatau Valley Walk |
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Name: Kawhatau Valley Walk
Address: Kawhatau Valley, RD 7, Mangaweka
Contact: Kristin Gorringe on 06 382 5721
Fax: 382 5721
Email: manston@xtra.co.nz
Website: www.kvw.co.nz
Kawhatau Valley walks is a 2 or 3 day walking package that allows you to walk at your own pace, with minimal gear, over superb hill country farms with spectacular views of the surrounding Rangitikei District.
Cost: 2 days and nights for $100 and 3 days and nights for $150 per person or the fully catered option which is $200 for 2 days and $300 for 3 days. | |
| Aorangi Experiences |
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Name: Aorangi Experineces
Address: Mangahoata Rd, RD 2, Taihape
Phone: 0800 248 666 or +64 6 388 1444
Email: thelodge@rivervalley.co.nz
Website: www.hikoitreks.co.nz
Share the land, legends and unique history of the central North Island Mountain - Aorangi - and the Tangata Whenua, the original Maori people of the land of Aotearoa/New Zealand. | |
Walks in and around Taihape
For some short walks in and around Taihape click here.
| Mt Stewart Reserve |
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Mt Stewart Reserve is close to the town and is an 8 hectare bush-clad hill on the northern outskirts of Taihape. A re-vegetation project is under way to re-cover the area with plants indigenous to the reserve.
For more information about the Mount Stewart Native Forest Reserve and its history click here | |
| Taihape's Hidden Secret |
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Just a five minute stroll from the CBD is Taihape’s Scenic Reserve. A delightful bush walk, along well formed walking tracks, will take you through the well vegetated native bush to the Hautapu River, a great spot to fly fish for brown trout. Take thirty minutes to discover Taihape’s Hidden Secret.
Location - The scenic reserve is accessed by walking through the Memorial Park and Children’s playground which is situated one block east of the main street along Tui Street. | |
| Paengaroa Scenic Reserve |
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A 5 minute drive from Taihape and one of six mainland islands managed by the Department of Conservation. These are areas of forest in rural New Zealand that are intensively managed in an attempt to create the equivalent of offshore islands on the mainland. It has a remarkable concentration of rare species and the greatest concentration of divaricating plants for any similar sized area in New Zealand making it a botanical treasure trove.
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| The Inland Patea Heritage Trail |
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(Taihape – Hastings) is one of the North Island’s best kept secrets. Along this trail you can retrace the ancient Maori route from Hawke’s Bay to the Inland Patea district around the headwaters of the Rangitikei River and its main tributaries the Moawhango and Hautapu Rivers. From the trail you can obtain breathtaking views of mountains and river gorges. From the highest point on the road you can cross the watershed where streams flow eastward through the mountain ranges to Hawke’s Bay and westward into the Tasman Sea south of Wanganui…. For more information about this trail, contact or visit the Taihape Information Centre. | |
Taihape information centre – taihapeinfo@rangitikei.govt.nz
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