Upper Picnic Area
Upper Picnic Area is a grassland in Upper Hutt City, Greater Wellington. Upper Picnic Area is situated nearby to the grassland Tunnel Gully Picnic Area, as well as near the peak Plateau, Upper Hutt.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Maymorn railway station and Mangaroa railway station.
Maymorn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maymorn railway station is a twin platform, rural request stop railway station serving the small settlement of Maymorn on the Maymorn Plateau, east of Upper Hutt, in New Zealand’s North Island. Maymorn railway station is situated 1½ km west of Upper Picnic Area.
Mangaroa railway station
Ruins
Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY 2.5.
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 Tunnel deviation in 1955. Mangaroa railway station is situated 3½ km west of Upper Picnic Area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maymorn and Te Mārua.
Maymorn
Hamlet
Maymorn is a rural area of Upper Hutt city in the Wellington region of New Zealand, consists of Rural Hill and Rural Valley Floor zones. The New Zealand census treats Maymorn as part of Te Mārua for statistical purposes.
Te Mārua
Suburb
Te Mārua is the easternmost urban suburb of Upper Hutt. For reasons of location and distance from the city, the area is often classified as rural. In December 2019, the approved official geographic name of the locality was gazetted as "Te Mārua". Te Mārua is situated 2½ km northwest of Upper Picnic Area.
Kaitoke
Hamlet
Kaitoke, part of Upper Hutt City, is a locality in the southern North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the northern end of the Hutt Valley, 45 kilometres northeast of Wellington City and six kilometres from the northern end of the Upper Hutt urban area. Kaitoke is situated 3½ km northeast of Upper Picnic Area.
Upper Picnic Area
- Type: Grassland
- Location: Upper Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.10878° or 41° 6′ 32″ southLongitude
175.15181° or 175° 9′ 7″ eastOpen location code
4VCQV5R2+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1025037089OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=grass
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