Upper Hutt

Worth seeing in and around Upper Hutt

8 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.

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   Trentham Racecourse

   Trentham Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Trentham in Upper Hutt, next to Trentham Military Camp.

   1 km · main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Totara Park

   Tōtara Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand, located 2 km northeast of the city centre. It is accessed via the Tōtara Park Bridge which crosses the Hutt River, connecting it to State Highway 2 and the main Upper Hutt urban area.

   4.1 km · suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand and park in Auckland Region, New Zealand · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Trentham Memorial Park

   Trentham Memorial Park is a large park and a major sport and recreation ground in Trentham, a suburb of Upper Hutt, in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The park was purchased by the Upper Hutt Council from the Barton family in the 1950s as Upper Hutt's Second World War memorial and covers an area of 48 hectares.

   1.8 km · park in Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Christ Church, Taitā

   Christ Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Taitā, Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The church is the oldest surviving church in the Wellington region.

   9.3 km · oldest surviving church in the Wellington region · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Pākuratahi Forest

   Pākuratahi Forest is a regional park located in Upper Hutt in the Wellington Region at the southern end of New Zealand's North Island. It is administered by Wellington Regional Council.

   9.3 km · park in New Zealand · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Birchville Dam

   Birchville Dam is believed to be the second unreinforced concrete arch dam built for water supply in New Zealand. It was built in 1930 for the Upper Hutt Borough Council to provide increased water capacity for the borough and replaced a water supply weir built in 1913–1914 at the same location on Clarke's Creek, near Birchville.

   5.8 km · dam in New Zealand · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Maidstone Park

   Maidstone Park is a sports and recreation park located close to the centre of Upper Hutt in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand.

   2.3 km · Sports and recreation park in Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St John's Anglican Church

   St John's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located at 563 Fergusson Drive, Trentham, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The church is one of the oldest surviving Anglican churches in the Wellington region.

   600 m · church in Trentham, Upper Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Bartons Bush in Trentham Memorial Park is the last remaining stand of native bush that once covered the whole of the Hutt valley. California Park in the suburb of Totara Park and the Wellington Fault that runs through the middle of the park and the suburb. To find this feature drive the loop around California Drive.

From Wikivoyage: Upper Hutt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Tunnel Gully and the Rimutaka Incline walkways. Walk or mountain bike the old railway route over the Rimutaka ranges. The Hutt River is easily accessible for most of its length. It is even able to be fished for trout - a fishing licence is required. Mountain bike the Karapoti! Every year mountainbikers from around the country and around the world come to take on the Karapoti Challenge - a classic mountain bike race.

1. 01
   Hutt Valley Clay Target Club

   The best clay shooting club in greater Wellington.

From Wikivoyage: Upper Hutt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Several restaurants and fast food outlets can be found in Main Street or nearby. The ubiquitous New Zealand Fish and Chip shop, or perhaps a burger bar, dot the suburbs, often near a dairy or one of a group of shops.

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   Silverspoon

   7 Kiln St, Silverstream, dine.silverspoon.net.nz@gmail.com.

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Getting to Upper Hutt

Airports

Wellington (WLG), 30 km

Stations

Upper Hutt railway station, 1.9 km · Heretaunga railway station, 2.3 km · Pomare railway station, 7.8 km · Manor Park railway station, 6.5 km · Silver Stream Railway, 5 km

• Christchurch → Upper Hutt

  332 km · quickest by air, 5h · NZ$180–280
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  478 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · NZ$220–340
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No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Hutt

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 Upper Hutt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Upper Hutt – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.