Lake Tutira & Tutira Walkway 

Lake Tutira is nestled in hills along the Napier to Wairoa highway. The area surrounding the lake is a bird sanctuary and idyllic picnic and camping spot There is fantastic trout fishing in the lake's northern reaches and the rivers that flow into it.

Fish restocking occurrs each year, with fingerling rainbows from the Greenmeadows Hatchery as well as browns and sometimes tiger trout (brown-brook trout crosses). This pretty lake, fringed by weeping willows, lies among agricultural lands and was declared a bird sanctuary at the insistence of farmer/author/ornithologist William Herbert Guthrie-Smith (1861-1940). Herbert farmed neighbouring Tutira Station and saw the need for a refuge for the native birds.

The Tutira Walkway, steep in places, passes through Tutira Station and the adjoining Lake Tutira Domain. There are splendid views of coastal Hawke''s Bay from Table Mountain Trig. Allow five hours for the full round trip of 9km.