Ruakituri River

The Famous Big Trout River in New Zealand

Ruakituri River

Description & Directions

The Ruakituri is an isolated river that rises in the remote Ureweras and drains the Huiarau Range. It flows for many kilometres through rugged bush before it tumbles 100 metres over the Waitangi Falls. Above the falls, access is limited to those well-equipped trampers who have not only local knowledge but also sufficient experience to cope with rapid changes in weather conditions. Below the falls, the river tumbles down terraces of bedrock, between steep, bushflanked valley walls until fingers of farmland meet it at the top end of Papuni Station. The farm is on Papuni Road, which is reached by turning right off Ruakituri Road, just before the Erepiti Gorge.

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