Petone
Petone is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.
Petone is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. It stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour. Europeans first settled in Petone in January 1840, making it the oldest European settlement in the Wellington Region. It became a borough in 1888, and merged with Lower Hutt in 1989.
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Worth seeing in and around Petone
10 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.
- 01Hutt Recreation Ground
The Hutt Recreation Ground is a football, cricket, athletics and rugby union ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The grounds are owned by the Hutt City Council and managed for them by Downer.
2.5 km · Sports ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Dowse Art Museum
The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opened in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, the Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities.
2.6 km · Lower Hutt art museum · Wikipedia - 03Petone Settlers Museum
Petone Settlers Museum is a local history museum located in the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, a historic building in Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The building was originally constructed to mark the Wellington province's centennial commemorations; the museum opened in the building in 1977.
500 m · local history museum in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 04Petone Recreation Ground
Petone Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1951 when Hutt Valley played Wanganui in the 1950/51 Hawke Cup.
400 m · cricket ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 05Belmont Regional Park
Belmont Regional Park is a regional park located between Lower Hutt and Porirua, in the Wellington Region at the southern end of New Zealand's North Island. It is administered by Wellington Regional Council.
3.9 km · regional park in Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 06Lower Hutt War Memorial Library
The Lower Hutt War Memorial Library is a building in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, that houses that city's central library. The public library system of the city of Lower Hutt identifies the library collection within the building as the "War Memorial Library".
2.4 km · public library in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 07Queensgate Shopping Centre
Queensgate Shopping Centre is a medium-sized shopping centre in central Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The centre first opened in October 1986, and underwent a large scale redevelopment that was completed in August 2006.
2.9 km · shopping mall in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 08Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation was a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for making New Zealand business more innovative.
3.5 km · New Zealand research institute · Wikipedia - 09Vogel House
Vogel House at 75 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a neo-Georgian-style home built in 1933. For 13 years, it was the official residence of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and it housed multiple other ministers and dignitaries.
2.4 km · historic building in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 10Percy Scenic Reserve
Percy Scenic Reserve is a botanic garden and bush reserve located in Maungaraki in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
1.4 km · New Zealand scenic reserve and botanic garden · Wikipedia
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Getting to Petone
- Airports
- Wellington (WLG), 13 km
- Stations
- Waterloo railway station, 3.8 km · Petone railway station, 800 m · Hutt Park railway station, 2.9 km · Beach railway station, 1.6 km · Hutt Park railway station, Petone, 1.8 km
- Christchurch → Petone315 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · NZ$150–230
- Auckland → Petone487 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · NZ$190–290
- Queenstown → PetoneTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Petone
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 Petone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are regular ferries between Wellington and Picton in the South Island operated by Interislander and Bluebridge, connecting with buses and the train to Christchurch.
- Get inHitchhiking from central Wellington is difficult as most traffic stays within the metropolitan area, and it is illegal to hitchhike on the motorway until the Hutt Valley (about 15 km or 9 mi northeast of Wellington) or Ōtaki (about 65 km or 40 mi north).
- Get inIf you are intending to hitchhike, you are best to catch a train to Waikanae or Upper Hutt and walk to the main highways to catch a lift from there (the best spot for Upper Hutt hitchhikers is at the Caltex petrol station about a 3 km walk north from the railway station along Fergusson Drive).
- Get aroundWellington has an extensive and well-patronised public transport network, with buses, trains and ferries serving the city and beyond extending into the Greater Wellington region.
- Get aroundThe Kelburn cable car is a Wellington icon.
From Wikivoyage: Wellington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Petone
Petone is 11 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lower Huttcity in the Wellington Region of New Zealand3.4 km
- Mellingsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.3 km
- Korokorosuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand1.2 km
- Seaviewsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand2.9 km
- Harbour Viewsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.1 km
- Woburnsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand2.4 km