Find your adventure – video guides to our most popular tracks

Regional parks provide places to connect with nature, get active outdoors, and enjoy peaceful escapes close to home. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.  

Kaitoke Regional Park in Upper Hutt

The Loop Walk is a 15-minute easy and accessible track. Stroll over the swingbridge and through the rainforest. Read about this unique forest with the information panels along the way. 

Kaitoke Regional Park

Belmont Regional Park from Porirua

Waihora Loop Track is a 1 hour 15 min walk from Waihora Crescent, Porirua, through previously farmed areas in the park. There are stunning views over Transmission Gully and towards the Porirua inlet at the high points. Dogs are welcome on this trail. 

Belmont Regional Park

Queen Elizabeth Park in Kāpiti

Te Ara o Tipapa wetland loop is a 45 minute walk. You’ll cross the Mackays Crossing wetlands, low dunes, and the only piece of original kahikatea forest remaining on the Kāpiti Coast. Further on you walk through the “Marines” wetland, first planted in 2003, then past the memorial commemorating the camps that were here during World War II. 

Queen Elizabeth Park

Wainuiomata Regional Park in Lower Hutt 

Gums Loop Track is a 1 hour walk through the gum trees and past the old dam construction houses. Cross the Triangle Paddock from the carpark, then the footbridge and follow the river upstream through the gum trees and past regenerating bush. Cross back over the river via the swingbridge and return to the carpark along the sealed road. 

Wainuiomata Regional Park

East Harbour Regional Park in Lower Hutt 

The Oxbow Loop is a 35 minute short flat walk in the river valley. 

East Harbour Regional Park

Belmont Regional Park from Lower Hutt 

Korokoro Stream Track is a 3 hour return walk. A graded track follows the old water pipeline up to the historic Korokoro Dam. 

Belmont Regional Park

Updated November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM