Rainbow Springs Nature Park

Rainbow Springs Nature Park The National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa is now open for guided tours. Check our website for available dat A day of adventure & nature discoveries awaits!

Permanently closed.

The National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa is now open for guided tours, however the rest of Rainbow Springs remains closed due to Covid-19. Check out our website for available days and times, and to buy your tickets. Set amongst the native trees and beautiful forests of Rotorua, Rainbow Springs Nature Park offers a fun-packed and educational experience for the whole family. Learn about New Zealand’s fas

cinating natural history and meet the creatures who call this great land of ours home. Each day our team of experts run free guide park tour to introduce our manuhiri (visitors) to the 22 native and endemic park residents including trout, reptiles and native birds. Rainbow Springs is also home to the National Kiwi Hatchery - the largest and most successful kiwi hatchery in the world where our manuhiri can see real conservation in action! Some lucky ones may even witness a baby kiwi hatch, eggs being incubated or a kiwi chick being fed or getting a health check. Discovery and fun never stop at Rainbow Springs with our exciting kids' playpark & interactive playscapes, the thrilling Big Splash water ride, the cultural Taonga Show and the Sacred Spring & Plant Tour. Don’t forget to swing past our café any time for coffee, drinks, snacks and lunch to keep you going throughout the day, and relax at our awesome picnic area - perfectly located just by the waterfall and the main playground.

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192 Fairy Springs Road
Rotorua
3015

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073500440

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Nature & Conservation made fun!

Get up close with all the wonderful birds, bugs and beasts who call New Zealand home, from birds that can’t fly to reptiles that walked with the dinosaurs! Set amid lush native forest and crossed by natural water streams, Rainbow Springs is a conservation nature park and the perfect place to discover nature and the most precious native animal species of Aotearoa.

We are home to the National Kiwi Hatchery, the world’s largest and most successful kiwi conservation centre. Since 1995, our husbandry team has hatched over 2,020 kiwi chicks! Stick your beak in the Kiwi Burrow, a unique interactive experience where you can stand in a human-sized kiwi burrow, sit in a giant kiwi egg, and see real kiwi in their nocturnal enclosure. Our manuhiri (visitors) also have the opportunity to join the National Kiwi Hatchery ‘Behind The Scenes’ Tour and see real conservation in action; if you are lucky you may see real kiwi eggs being incubated, a baby kiwi hatching, or a kiwi chick getting a health check-up too.

Have face-to-face with our cheeky parrots Kea and Kaka, try to spot Tuatara – the masters of camouflage, check out the giant eel & trout, experience the interactive cultural show Taonga – Treasures of New Zealand, relax at the beautiful waterfall-front picnic area, ride the Big Splash and let the kids have some fun at our many interactive Playscapes! and the large playground.

If you are all about the roads less travelled, join the Scared Spring & Plant Tour to learn more about the medicinal properties of local native plants and the Māori legends around the sacred pond where warriors dived.