Wellington

Hiking routes around Wellington

60 waymarked hiking routes run within 17 km of Wellington: 1 national, 19 regional and 40 local.

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Around Wellington

Te Araroa - North Island / Te Ika-a-Māui passes through Wellington: 56 sections with 1,764 km mapped in all, 43 km of them within 17 km. Te Araroa - 05 Wellington passes through Wellington: 6 sections with 164 km mapped in all, 43 km of them within 17 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Hutt River Trail, 35 km from Petone Station, Lower Hutt to Plateau Road, Te Marua, Upper Hutt. Most of the 40 local routes are short walks: 30 of them are under 10 km. Wellington City Council looks after 2 of the 12 routes listed here.

The routes with most of their length within 17 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 17 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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