Catchpool Tawa Grove Walk
Wainuiomata · Wellington · Loop
Route and dog-access details for this walk come from the Department of Conservation, licensed CC BY 4.0. DOC’s own wording: “Dogs must be kept on a leash except in the dog exercise area opposite the Catchpool Centre and in the [dog exercise] areas in the south of the Catchpool valley. Dogs are not permitted in the Turere catchment kiwi zone”. Evidence: the rule-setter’s own published wording. How we check dog rules.
Good to know
Dogs are allowed here. Keep them on the lead, watch for ground-nesting birds and stock, and read the signs at the gate.
DOC lists this as a wheelchair-accessible short walk: well formed, even surface, no steps or steep sections, and bridged stream crossings. DOC track categories, checked 2026-08-17.
About Catchpool Tawa Grove Walk
This short track follows 0.5 km as a loop, near Wainuiomata in Wellington.
A short, wheelchair-accessible walk in the Catchpool Valley day area of Remutaka Forest Park near Wellington, winding through tawa and mature podocarp forest beside Catchpool Stream. Dogs are welcome on a lead in this part of the valley (but not in the Turere kiwi zone).
It sits at the easy end and barely climbs, and takes about 5m to walk.
Dogs are allowed here, on the lead.