Greytown Lions Nature Trail
Greytown · Wellington
We drew and checked this walk ourselves against the authority quoted above before publishing it. The route line comes from official track data. South Wairarapa District Council’s own wording: “South Wairarapa District Council, "Wairarapa Walks", read 4 September 2026. The council's entry for this trail reads: "A walking and cycling trail in Greytown. Access from North street (Udy street junction) or Kuratawhiti St. Small carpark at North St entrance. Dogs must be on leads. Relatively flat path through farmland." The lead requirement is the council's own wording and applies to the whole trail, which crosses working farmland end to end”. Evidence: the rule-setter’s own published wording. How we check dog rules.
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Dogs are allowed here. Keep them on the lead, watch for ground-nesting birds and stock, and read the signs at the gate.
About Greytown Lions Nature Trail
Near Greytown in Wellington, Greytown Lions Nature Trail runs 1.5 km.
A flat 1.5 km walking and cycling trail along the top edge of Greytown, running between the North Street and Udy Street corner and the far end of Kuratawhiti Street. There is a small car park at the North Street entrance, which is the easier end to start from. Out and back makes it about 3 km, or leave a car at each end and walk it one way in half an hour. It is genuinely flat, so it suits an old dog, a young one, or a pram, and the surface is a formed farm track rather than a footpath. What it is not is a bush walk. The trail runs through working farmland with the Tararuas filling the view to the west, so the interest is the open country and the birds rather than shade or shelter. On a hot afternoon there is very little of either, and there is no water on the route. Leads on for the whole thing, and that comes straight from South Wairarapa District Council rather than from us reading between the lines. Their Wairarapa Walks brochure gives this trail four words of dog rule, "Dogs must be on leads", with no exceptions and no off lead section. Farmland is the reason: stock can be in the paddocks either side of you, and a loose dog near sheep in the Wairarapa is a problem that ends badly for the dog. Worth knowing that this is not one of the Greytown Trails Trust routes. The Rail Trail and the Tauwharenikau Trail are theirs and have their own dog page, but this one is the council's, so the rule above is the one that applies here.
It sits at the easy end and gains roughly 5 m, and takes about 18 min to walk.
Dogs are allowed here, on the lead.
