WalkHidden gem
Lake Rotorangi hydro walkway
Patea, Taranaki
Forest track above the longest man-made lake in New Zealand, ending across Patea Dam.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 40 min
The walkway climbs gently through black beech, nikau and tawa to views over Lake Rotorangi and crosses the Patea Dam, which was built between 1979 and 1984. There are seats along the way. The roads in are unsealed and run across private farmland.
Good to know
- Leave farm gates as you find them
- Toilets are at the campground, run by South Taranaki District Council
- From Hawera go south on SH3 for 19 km, then Ball Road, then Maben Road
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Rotorangi Road, Patea Hydro Dam; unsealed roads over private farmland
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
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