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Kaihū Must-Do's
Nelson’s Kaihū Kauri - The gallery features many beautiful kauri items, a 30-ton ancient kauri log centrepiece and a fascinating showroom that’s often humming with up to 40 busy craftspeople.
Trounson National Park - Stand before giants in this 586ha reserve, peppered with kauri trees. The Trounson Kauri Park Loop Track provides a 40-minute amble through the best of it.
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River Tubing - Kaihū River runs through the Kauri Coast TOP 10 Holiday Park, providing swimming holes and river trails. Hire tyre tubes from reception for lazy river rides around the park.
Waipōua Forest - Home to the giant Tane Mahuta, Aotearoa’s largest living kauri tree. A whopping 13.77m in diameter, 51.5m high and somewhere between 1200 and 2000 years old.
Waipōua kauri forest © Adobe Stock
Footprints Waipōua Twilight Encounter - Witness the forest come nightfall on this four-hour tour departing at 6pm (5pm in winter). Cast in spellbinding shadow, visit the 3000-year-old Te Matua Ngāhere kauri tree while your guide explains the forest’s great significance to Māori beliefs.
