Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
98 Reviews
- Friday8 AM–6 PM
- Saturday8 AM–6 PM
- Sunday8 AM–6 PM
- Monday8 AM–6 PM
- Tuesday8 AM–6 PM
- Wednesday8 AM–6 PM
- Thursday8 AM–6 PM
About the Business
Pāuatahanui Wildlife Reserve: Places to go in Wellington and Kapiti | Pāuatahanui Inlet is the largest relatively unmodified estuarine area in the southern North Island. It has viewing hides, tracks, a visitor centre and a picnic area.
Contacts
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VWX7+8Q Unnamed Road, Pāuatahanui 5381
Hours
- Friday8 AM–6 PM
- Saturday8 AM–6 PM
- Sunday8 AM–6 PM
- Monday8 AM–6 PM
- Tuesday8 AM–6 PM
- Wednesday8 AM–6 PM
- Thursday8 AM–6 PM
Features
- Wheelchair-accessible car park
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Good for kids
- Picnic tables
Recommended Reviews
Jill Friend
23.10.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Bird wetlands with boardwalks, viewing hides, wide flat paths for walkers and biking. See rare white spoonbills. Excellent !!
James Foy
03.10.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Beautiful little reserve would recommend. You can see a great variety of birds including Spoonbills, Tui, Heron, and Goldfinches among others and also very quiet which is always a bonus.
Paora Morrison
25.09.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
A great walk. Nice and easy and beautiful scenes of wetlands and wildlife
Sam Gatelytaylor
08.09.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
A few tracks through the reserve. Along these tracks, you can see lots of wildlife, including birds like spoonbills
M N Scott
16.08.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Fantastic reserve with a lot of work and devotion gone into its maintenance. Great bird life throughout the year.
Megan Davis
25.07.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Excellent bird watching here. Neat hides to watch from. Pleasant walking but likely that the tracks would flood after heavy rain. Tracks are well maintained. Best place to park your car is over the one way bridge just before the cinemas.
Tim Noble
25.07.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Nice flat path along side the waterfront. Sometimes next to the road and other times through the plants. Plenty of birds to see including kingfisher diving before the surface. Depending where you've parked your car it's ready easy to walk for half an hour and then turn back
Stewart Clarke
22.07.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Well maintained and paths well signposted but main entrance not clearly marked and middle hide has too much bush in front to see lake. Birding good.
Linda
20.07.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
This wetland has a range of birdlife and several tracks through the wetlands. There is no entry fee and several entrance points to the track network.
Sabyasachi Banerjee
20.07.2023
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Nice place for short walks. Has a few hides, which are best for observing birds.Went back again in September, this time saw NZ Kingfishers and Takahe.
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VWX7+8Q Unnamed Road, Pāuatahanui 5381
Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve