Taumarunui
Taumarunui is a town of almost 5,000 people (2024) in Whanganui in a central part of the North Island of New Zealand.
Understand
Climate
Due to location, low altitude and Geography surroundings, Taumarunui is more liable to warm to hot summers than other central North Island centres and in winter, Taumarunui is cold and frosty.
Get in
It is on State Highway 4.
By train
- Main article: Rail travel in New Zealand
- 🌍 Taumarunui railway station. The Northern Explorer has trains three times per week from Auckland or Wellington.
Get around
See
- 🌍 Taumarunui Art Centre. Community venue which has occasional exhibitions.
Do
- 🌍 Whanganui Journey. Taumarunui is the start of a 145 km (90 mi) river journey by canoe to Pipiriki. This is a Great Walk, with DoC campsites and huts, which must be booked in advance during the Great walks Season (October - April). The whole journey normally takes 5 days. You could do the first 22 km to Ohinepane Campsite as a day trip if you arranged to be met there.
- 🌍 Taumarunui Canoe Hire & Jet Boat Tours, 292 Hikumutu Road. Hires canoes and runs jet boat tours and one way trips from Ohinepane to Taumarunui.
- 🌍 Taumarunui Golf Club, 165 Golf Road. 18 holes $50.
- 🌍 Performing Arts Taumarunui Inc (Little Theatre), 22 Miriama Street. Occasional shows
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- 🌍 Taumarunui Holiday Park. Cabins, and powered and non-powered pitches in a small park surrounded by 23 ha of bush. non-powered pitch $20, cabin from $75.
- 🌍 Alexander Motel, 6 Marae Street, ☏ +64 7 895 8501. from $139.
Connect
Go next
- south to National Park Village
- east to Turangi
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