Kenepuru

Worth seeing in and around Kenepuru

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Pātaka Art + Museum

   Pātaka Museum of Arts and Cultures, often stylised as Pātaka Art + Museum, is a municipal museum and art gallery in Porirua City, New Zealand. Te Marae o Te Umu Kai o Hau is the name of the building where Pātaka is located and opened in 1998.

   1.9 km · municipal museum and art gallery in Porirua, New Zealand · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Aotea Lagoon

   Aotea Lagoon is an urban park, containing an artificial salt water lagoon, in Porirua, New Zealand. The lagoon was originally a bay on the Onepoto arm of Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour.

   3.8 km · urban park in Porirua, New Zealand · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Rangituhi / Colonial Knob

   Rangituhi / Colonial Knob is a large hill or mountain southwest of Porirua city and west of the northern Wellington suburb of Tawa. The peak's summit stands at 468 m.

   2.4 km · hill in New Zealand · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Gear Homestead

   Gear Homestead, named Okowai by its original owner James Gear, is a historic building in Porirua, New Zealand. It was listed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category 2 historic place in 1983.

   3.1 km · historic building in Porirua, New Zealand · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Whitireia New Zealand

   Whitireia New Zealand, previously called Whitireia Community Polytechnic and Parumoana Community College is a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, a government-owned and funded vocational education provider in New Zealand. Whitireia was established as an independent tertiary education institute in 1986 on the shores of Porirua Harbour.

   2.4 km · education institute in New Zealand · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kenepuru

Airports

Wellington (WLG), 20 km

Stations

Linden railway station, 1.3 km · Tawa railway station, 2.5 km · Kenepuru railway station, 700 m · Porirua railway station, 1.5 km · Redwood railway station, 3 km

• Christchurch → Kenepuru

  321 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · NZ$160–250
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• Auckland → Kenepuru

  478 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · NZ$200–310
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kenepuru

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kenepuru. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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