Kaitoke Regional Park

Kaitoke Regional Park
Hutt River in Kaitoke Regional Park
Type	Wellington Regional park
Location	Kaitoke, New Zealand
Coordinates	41°04′08″S 175°11′55″E / 41.069027°S 175.198658°E / -41.069027; 175.198658
Area	2,860 ha (7,100 acres)
Operated by	Wellington Regional Council
Status	Open

Kaitoke Regional Park is a Wellington Regional park located in Kaitoke, New Zealand, past Upper Hutt. The park is adjacent to the Hutt water collection area and comprises mostly native bush. The most popular loop walk in the park leads through the valley of the Upper Hutt River. It was opened in 1983.

The park was the filming location for exterior shots of Rivendell for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

External links

Greater Wellington Regional Council

Wellington regional parks

Battle Hill Farm Forest Park Belmont Regional Park East Harbour Regional Park Kaitoke Regional Park Queen Elizabeth Park

Places associated with Tolkien tourism

New Zealand

North Island

Waikato	Hobbiton Movie Set/Hobbiton and the Shire Mount Ngauruhoe/Mount Doom

Manawatu-Wanganui	Mangawhero River/Ithilien Mount Ruapehu/Gates of Mordor Rangipo Desert/Gates of Mordor Rangitikei River/River Anduin Tongariro National Park/Emyn Muil Whakapapa skifield/Mordor

Wellington	Kaitoke Regional Park/Rivendell and the Fords of Isen Mount Victoria/Escaping the Shire and Dunharrow Putangirua Pinnacles/Dimholt Road Weta Workshop

South Island

Nelson	Mount Olympus, Kahurangi National Park/Outcrop south of Rivendell Takaka Hill/Chetwood

Tasman	Mount Owen/Dimrill Dale

Canterbury	Twizel/Pelennor Fields

Otago	Dart River/Isengard, Lothlorien and Amon Hen Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge/The Argonath Mount Aspiring National Park/Isengard Mount Sunday, Mount Potts station/Edoras Skippers Canyon/Ford of Bruinen The Remarkables/Misty Mountains Twelve Mile Delta, Queenstown/Ithilien camp

Westland	Mount Gunn, Franz Josef Glacier/Ered Nimrais

Southland	Kepler Mire/Dead Marshes Mavora Lakes/Nen Hithoel, Fangorn, Silverlode River and River Anduin Snowdon Forest/Fangorn Waiau River/River Anduin

Elsewhere

United Kingdom

Oxford	The Eagle and Child Exeter College Merton College Pembroke College Northmoor Road Wolvercote Cemetery

Birmingham	Birmingham Oratory Sarehole Mill

Worcestershire	Malvern Hills

South Africa

Bloemfontein	National Afrikaans Literary Museum

Switzerland

Jenins	Greisinger Museum

Lauterbrunnen	Lauterbrunnental/Rivendell

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