What's on!

Find out what's on and what's coming up at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari so you can come and join in the fun!

April School Holidays:

1. Kids go FREE into the southern enclosure with a paying adult.
2. Enter our takahē colouring competition to celebrate takahē awareness month.
3. Meet a takahē. Receive 20% off a guided tour to our Tautari Wetland when you bring in your colouring competition entry. Check our website for all available tour times.

See more details below.

KIDS GO FREE FOR THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Kids go FREE into Te Tūī a Tāne, the southern enclosure for the April school holidays.

Book ahead via the link to come on a fabulous family adventure in te ngahere at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari.

Terms and conditions apply.

Book here!

Terms and conditions: 

  1. Children 16 years and under must be accompanied by a paying adult (Sanctuary Explorer Pass prices for adults apply).
  2. Offer valid for Sanctuary Explorer Passes only, does not apply to guided tours.
  3. Offer not valid for large groups of 10 or more. Please book for large groups through our visitor centre: E: [email protected], Ph: 07 870 5180

 

April School Holidays Takahē Colouring Competition

Get creative and celebrate takahē awareness month and the 75th anniversary of the rediscovery of the takahē. Print the colouring competition, add your very own artistic flare and find out all about the takahē recovery programme while you're at it! Bring your completed colouring competition page into our Manu Tīoriori visitor centre to enter, or email to [email protected]. When you come to visit us, bring your colouring competition in to get 20% off a Guided Tour to our Tautari Wetland and meet one of our takahē families! Have you met a takahē yet? Kua tūtaki anō koe ki te takahē?

Check when the tours are available throughout the April school holidays here: Experience Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari

Three awesome prize packs are up for grabs.

Be in to WIN one of these fantastic prize packs from Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, Mother Earth NZ, and Flappy Families.

Colouring Competition

 

Save the date: Wednesday 5th June, 6pm - 11pm 

Click the banner below to buy your tickets and join us for a fabulous evening of food by BiteLAB, conservation stories and incredible artworks curated by Kate Darrow.

What our visitors say

Great walks and reserve in what is now pristine North Island forest. Jake's 90-minute guided tour of the Southern Enclosure was fantastic. A must for every tourist and NZ folk to see Kākā and Tīeke in the wild.

Peter Symington

It was so cool to finally meet you in person and the experience you gave us was just so amazing! You know what, I haven't stopped smiling today. I am still buzzing from the trip and so are the kids! It's just so incredible to get out and see firsthand what we have been learning about...

Aberdeen School

Thank you. It was an informative and engaging day. Engaging the children with what you were doing conservation wise and the guides information on the track were excellent. Excellent knowledgeable staff, friendly and plenty of them to help guide the students (and teachers) around.

Fairfield Intermediate

Saw kaka, robin, saddleback, fantail and other birds. There was bird activity even though it was raining. I love the 'jurassic park' style forest, 500yr+ old trees and informative signs. The viewing tower is great. I think if you stay up there long enough you will always see something....

Elise Cooper

Great experience and wonderful staff so friendly and helpful. The bush and birdlife are amazing, have to go back to do the wetland tour to see the tuatara.

Gary Chapman

Thank you all for an awesome educational experience last week. The tamariki were stoked, as were we all. We look forward to visiting again in the future.

Te Wharekura o te Kaokaoroa o Patetere

There are great hiking trails that can easily be walked in one visit. You can see many native birds and look at local plants. It's worth a visit!!!

Linea Matheis

All the educators were great. We loved their enthusiasm and patience. Thanks for a wonderful visit. One teacher said it was the most educational trip she has ever been on. Maybe we need to visit again and look at another part of the sanctuary.

Tirau School

Just wow! Absolutely wonderful! We recently did the Ancient Forest Tour and The Tautari Wetland tour. Just incredible. We highly recommend this experience, cannot rate it enough. We will be back. We even got to see Tuatara, Kākā and Takahē.

Tasman Travels, Aotearoa New Zealand

We absolutely love visiting Maungatautari, we have been several times over the years, often visiting the Southern Sanctuary and once doing the over the mountain hike from very early in the morning. We visited the southern enclosure today and spent six hours watching, walking and photographing...

Nikki Jean

Read More