**UPDATE Aug 2013** Someone has pulled the hoses out so the tubs can no longer be used. (Kereama Williams, Hastings)
Tarawera Hot Springs [CLOSED]
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Description
Directions
On the main highway between Napier and Taupo is the Tarawera tearooms (Phone 06 834 9755, open 7 days). There is a rough track from there leading to the pool. Park at the tea rooms and have a bite to eat and ask them where the track is. [Mike, NZ]/n
The tubs are a 15 minute walk down the only gravel track. You can actually drive two thirds of the way there if you don’t mind scratching your car up a bit. [Sheldon]
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Bather Reviews
Unfortunately the pools are no more! After visiting them and enjoying the unique experience and location several times on our last visit the track had become truly dangerous and the pools had been completely destroyed leaving only rubble on the rock base Unless someone has made the track safe again and rebuilt the pools then they are gone
Actually, as at October 2016, one of the pools was not cut up, and was still working. (Am writing about 3 years later now. ) Someone had fed a new hose into this pool. Water pretty hot, but enjoyable!
Dropped passed to see these old historic pools. DOC have cut the baths up now so that they will not hold water at all. A shame to see that these pools have been abandoned. Would be a great project to see them rebuilt.
Things are not good for access now. The second half of the track is very overgrown. DoC has padlocked the far access gate, but some enterprising person has cut a hole in the gate where you can squeeze through. However. beyond the gate the path is near impassable. There have been two major washouts and great care has to be…
The path is over grown and the advise is not to go there, but we loved the walk and views over the river and sat with our feet in the pool when we got there. Such a shame that this has been allowed to decay, but with ongoing erosion I can see doing it up is probably to costly as…
We visited on Saturday to find the ‘plug’ not functioning well and the closest pool virtually empty, despite the hose being in place. We cleaned the green slime off with the provided brush, then fashioned a new ‘plug’ by placing large rocks into the drainage pipe, then the piece of cloth, to level the ‘plug’ up with the base of…
These pools may be closed BUT if you don’t put your head under the water they are safe. They CAN get a bit green and slimy however I drive out from Napier once a week to bathe in them, listen to the native birds, and gaze out over the river. For me it is a time of peaceful contemplation, and…
Have just been to the pools: great, just like on the most recent photo. The setting’s gorgeous and worth the walk. The traffic noise (lots of trucks in low gear plus engine-braking) is significant, and that’s why we didn’t stay for a night. It’s probably really quiet when the SH is closed…
These pools are so relaxing out in the middle of the bush you can hear the river flowing down below. definetly woth a stop if your passing through.
What a shame that it’s been closed!!! I have been trying to find it’s location ever since I heard about this amazing event. About 5 years ago I met an Maori man in Waipukurau when we were doing a computer course together. We were talking about our belief in Angels. He told me that about 15 years before he had…