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Cape Egmont Lighthouse
Pungarehu, Taranaki
Squat cast-iron lighthouse on a windswept black-sand coast with Taranaki rising behind.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 30 min
A short detour off Surf Highway 45 gets you to a white cast-iron lighthouse that has been here since the 1880s. The cape is exposed and wild, with black-sand beach and big skies. On a clear evening the mountain sits in the frame behind it.
Good to know
- Best in late afternoon light
- It gets windy, bring a jacket
- Respect the farmland around the access road
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Short gravel and sealed road from SH45, fine for campervans in dry weather
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
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