Totara Park
District of Upper Hutt
in Upper Hutt City of Wellington, New Zealand
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Paraparaumu Airport (16 mi) - Wellington International Airport (18 mi)
- Hood Airport (32 mi)
- Picton Aerodrome (59 mi)
- Palmerston North Airport (64 mi)
- Woodbourne Airport (67 mi)
- RNZAF Base Ohakea (67 mi)
- Wanganui Airport (81 mi)
- Christchurch International Airport (207 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -41.138 and 175.050 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -41° 8' 17" and E 175° 3' 0"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - NZD
- Spoken languages:
- English, Maori
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 11:39 PM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Pacific/Auckland
- UTC/GMT offset: 12 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:46 am and 8:25 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 41.107 and -4.957 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Moraleja de Matacabras - References
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Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to New Zealand.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning New Zealand. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Explore Totara Park
The district Totara Park of Upper Hutt in Upper Hutt City (Wellington) is located in New Zealand about 20 mi north-east of Wellington, the country's capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 11°C / 51 °F
| Morning Temperature | 12°C / 53 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
| Night Temperature | 9°C / 48 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 4% |
| Air Humidity | 84% |
| Air Pressure | 1009 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 11 km/h (7 mph) from South-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 29% of sky |
| General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
16°C (61 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
15°C (60 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
17°C (63 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hawks Inn Motel
Wallaceville Motor Lodge
Silverstream Retreat
Bristol Motel
Totara Lodge
Videos from this area
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Hapkido Blue Belt Self Defence December 2013
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Hutt City Bike the Trail 2015
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Penalty! Upper Hutt City v Marist
Kelly Cup tie between Upper Hutt City and Marist. UHC were 5-3 ahead with about five minutes to go when the ref gave a clear cut penalty. He then saw this as a goal (5-4) and made the last...
TRAINVID: DC 4012, removed from Wairarapa Connection, Jan, 2014
G22AR, locomotive, DC 4012 had to be removed from the Wairarapa Connection weekend train. That was shuttling passengers between Upper Hutt and Masterton. Due to scheduled track maintenance ...
Medieval Fair at Harcourt Park 2015
World Invitational Jousting Competition - Grail of Chivalry Full armour battles - Pacific Cup Costumes, blacksmith, medieval fair Harcourt Park - Upper Hutt, New Zealand, February 2015.
Upper Hutt Spring Festival 2009
http://huttnz.co.nz Upper Hutt Spring Festival 2009. A quick look around at the large numbers in attendance on what was a beautiful Spring day. On Main Street.
Battle of the Nations - Sword Fighting at Medieval Fair in Harcourt Park
Foot combat competitions with a full battle between Team Australia and New Zealand at Harcourt Park World Invitational Jousting Tournament, February 2013.
Upper Hutt snow storm August 2011
A drive through Upper Hutt during the snow storm 16 August 2011.
Hanminjok Hapkido Ki Hap Hyung 1 with Sean and Mike December 2014
Ki Hap Hyung 1 demonstrated by Sean and Mike as part of their final 2nd Dan promotional test at the Upper Hutt Hapkido Academy, New Zealand. Promotion to 2nd and higher Dan grades under New...
Come for a ride on my Raptor
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt is a satellite city of Wellington. It is New Zealand's smallest city by population. It is in Greater Wellington.
Trentham, New Zealand
Trentham is the most populous suburb of Upper Hutt, a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The suburb is located in a widening of the Hutt Valley, five kilometres to the southwest of the Upper Hutt city centre. The name "Trentham" was initially given by Richard Barton, the first European Settler in the area, in honour of his former employer, the Duke of Sutherland. One of the Duke of Sutherland's subsidiary titles was Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford.
Barton's Bush
Barton's Bush, in Trentham Memorial Park, is the largest remaining area of lowland mixed podocarp/broadleaf forest in the Hutt Valley of New Zealand. Named after Richard Barton who settled in the area in 1841, it was his desire that this section of the native forest should remain whilst the city of Upper Hutt gradually took shape and land was cleared for farming and settling.
Akatarawa River
The Akatarawa River is located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is a short river, flowing south for 20 kilometres through small rocky gorges and the Akatarawa Valley before joining the Hutt River at the northern end of Upper Hutt. Its eventual outflow is into Wellington Harbour, then into Cook Strait.
Hutt International Boys' School
Hutt International Boys' School (usually known by its acronym, HIBS) is a state integrated boys' secondary school in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2011 the Principal is Grahame Duffy, who was appointed to the role in 2001.
Wellington Racing Club
The Wellington Racing Club (WRC) is a racing horse racing club based in Trentham, Wellington, New Zealand. Founded as the Wellington Jockey Club in 1854, the first race meetings held by the club were at Hutt Park in 1854 and at Burnham Water on the Miramar Peninsula. The Club first ran its signature competition, the Wellington Cup, in 1867. The name of the club was changed to the Wellington Racing Club in 1879, to denote its status as Wellington's premier racing club.
Upper Hutt College
Upper Hutt College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The school day runs from 8:40 am to 3:15 pm, and students attend five one-hour classes per day. Form classes are attended for 20 minutes each day, and are formed by a vertical form system which means students from every year level are placed in the same form class to encourage social growth between year levels throughout the school.
Heretaunga College
Heretaunga College is a secondary school located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. It is co-educational and has approximately 800 students from Year 9 (3rd form) through to Year 13 (7th Form). The college grounds are a large area with primary access via Ward Street (which runs North-West to South-East) and secondary access via Blockhouse Lane and Fortune Lane.
Emerald Hill, New Zealand
Emerald Hill is a hill (and unofficial suburb or locality name) in the suburb of Birchville, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The name Emerald Hill has been applied to an up-market housing development on the north-eastern slopes of Emerald Hill that consists of around 4 or 5 streets off the end of Gemstone Drive, so as to distinguish it from the older and more down-market Parkdale subdivision.
Birchville
Birchville is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand in the North Island. Its centre lies at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley, in the north of the city, near confluence of the Akatarawa Stream with the Hutt River. It is about a 5 km (10 minute) drive north from the centre of Upper Hutt. The Birchville community is spread out along both banks of the Hutt River in a long fairly narrow valley. Originally described as being part of Akatarawa or Mungaroa in early news paper reports.
Upper Hutt Railway Station
Upper Hutt railway station is a two-platform urban railway station serving the city of Upper Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island. The station lies on the Wairarapa Line, and is on Station Crescent, off Fergusson Drive. This station is served by the Wairarapa Connection (as a through station) and Tranz Metro electric multiple units (as a terminus station) trains.
Mangaroa Railway Station
Mangaroa railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, on the section that was replaced by the Rimutaka Deviation in 1955. It served the small rural settlement of Mangaroa, in the Mangaroa Valley, east of Upper Hutt.
Fergusson Intermediate
Fergusson Intermediate is a state co-educational intermediate school in the city of Upper Hutt, in the Wellington region of New Zealand. The school's classes are mixed, which means that both Year 7's and Year 8's are included in one class. Although not the official motto, the phrase used most frequently to encapsulate the ethos of the school is "High Expectations for All".
Wallaceville
Wallaceville is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is named after John Howard Wallace (1816-91), an early New Zealand settler, local body politician, businessman and author of one of the first published histories of New Zealand. It is home to the oldest surviving wooden blockhouse in New Zealand. AgResearch has its National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases at Wallaceville.
Elderslea
Elderslea is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand, positioned about a kilometre from the Upper Hutt city centre.
Ebdentown
Ebdentown is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand situated about a kilometre from the Upper Hutt city centre.
Clouston Park
Clouston Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand.
Kingsley Heights
Kingsley Heights is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is on a hill overlooking the city centre, but is also expanding into an adjacent valley. This suburb houses drinking water storage tanks for Upper Hutt
Maoribank
Maoribank is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. Te Āti Awa iwi had a village in Te Hau-Karetu (Maoribank) before European settlement.
Brown Owl, New Zealand
Brown Owl is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The origin of the name Brown Owl is somewhat uncertain, with at least 3 different stories offered by various historians. The Brown Owl Tea Rooms, later a Cabaret and Ballroom, stood at the corner of Akatarawa Road and Main Road (now State Highway 2) and were a popular dining and entertainment venue between 1927 and about 1962, before being purchased by the Rimutaka Baptist Church.
Wallaceville Railway Station
Wallaceville Railway Station is a single-platform urban railway station serving the suburb of Wallaceville in Upper Hutt. The station lies on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt Railway Station and Trentham Railway Station, and is located on Maclean Street, off Ward Street. This station is served by Tranz Metro's electric multiple unit trains, typically of the EM/ET class.
Trentham Railway Station
Trentham Railway Station is an urban railway station in Trentham, a suburb of the city of Upper Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. It is on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line and has two side platforms. The station is served by Tranz Metro's electric multiple unit trains, usually of the EM class. The double-tracking of the Wairarapa Line ends just north of Trentham station, with the line becoming single track as it continues north.
Upper Hutt Blockhouse
The Upper Hutt Blockhouse also known as the Wallaceville Blockhouse is a 19th-century American-style military blockhouse situated in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. One of very few such blockhouses built in New Zealand, it is preserved as a Category I historic place. It was built in late 1860 as part of a larger Stockade and was one of two Blockhouses and Stockades built in the Hutt Valley that year.
Trentham Racecourse
Trentham Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand.
Maidstone Park
Maidstone Park is a cricket ground in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. A single List A match was held there during the 1978/79 Gillette Cup when Wellington played Canterbury, which resulted in a 4 wicket victory by Canterbury. The following season a first-class match was held there between Wellington and Central Districts in the 1979/80 Shell Trophy, which resulted in an innings and 45 runs victory for Wellington.
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