Mokau Falls

Mokau Falls was probably the most impressive waterfall of the ones that Julie and I encountered during our drive through Te Urewera National Park between Rotorua and Wairoa.

This waterfall was said to be 37m tall, but it featured an attractive trapezoidal shape dwarfing the road bridge that ran across the Mokau Stream above it (giving us a sense of scale of the size of this falls).

Our pre-trip research had us on the lookout for this waterfall so we made it a point to look for pullouts while being cautious not to zoom by and miss it.

That said, zooming past the falls might be difficult to do since the road through Te Urewera National Park was pretty slow going considering it was almost entirely unsealed.

Indeed, this waterfall had a fairly obvious lookout, which produced the view you see at the top of this page.

However, I didn’t recall that it was signed during our visit in November 2004.

After having our fill of this top down vantage point, we then continued driving towards the bridge above the falls.

From there, we then looked back across the gorge to see the more obscure Tauwhare Falls (pronounced “TAU-far-eh”).

We weren’t sure if this other 41m waterfall would have much longevity given how thin and hidden it was amongst the bush despite the aid of rains just prior to our visit.

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Mokau Falls and Tauwhare Falls are administered under the jurisdiction of the Department of Conservation. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, visit their website.

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