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

• 1 Taumarunui railway station. The Northern Explorer has trains three times per week from Auckland or Wellington. (updated Nov 2024)

See

• 1 Taumarunui Art Centre. Community venue which has occasional exhibitions. (updated Nov 2024)

Do

• 1 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. (updated Nov 2024)
• 2 Taumarunui Canoe Hire & Jet Boat Tours, 292 Hikumutu Road. Hires canoes and runs jet boat tours and one way trips from Ohinepane to Taumarunui. (updated Nov 2024)
• 3 Taumarunui Golf Club, 165 Golf Road. 18 holes $50. (updated Nov 2024)

Buy

• 1 New World. daily 7AM-8PM. supermarket (updated Nov 2024)

Sleep

• 1 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. (updated Nov 2024)

Go next

• south to National Park Village
• east to Turangi