Spouting geysers, bubbling mud pools, steaming vents, boiling lakes and colourful sinter terraces are just about everywhere in and around Rotorua!
Besides taking advantage of our glorious hot pools, you must make time to check out our spectacular geothermal parks – each one so different from the others – in and around the city. These incredible, surreal places will leave you in awe and provide the most amazing backdrop for your photography.
Be sure to make time for Kuirau Park, just a few minutes’ walk from the city centre, and free to visit. Meandering paths through this city park take you to see mud pools and hot pools (too hot for bathing!). Then, take a load off and soak your feet in the free foot bath.
Steaming Cliffs Kayak at Lake Rotomahana
Geothermal Wonders, South
Explore the amazing scenery of Lake Rotomahana on this spectacular guided kayaking tour.
Lake Rotomahana
Geothermal Wonders, South
Sitting at the base of Mount Tarawera, Lake Rotomahana is steeped in history and surrounded by geothermal features like geysers, fumeroles and colourful steaming cliffs.
Government Gardens
Geothermal Wonders
Government Gardens is a beautiful public park situated along the edge of Lake Rotorua and just minutes from the city centre.
Totally Tarawera
Geothermal Wonders
Guided cultural and geothermal tours to Te Rātā Bay and Hot Water Beach, including a natural hot pool soak.
Hot Water Beach at Te Rātā Bay
Geothermal Wonders, East
Tucked away on the southern shore of Lake Tarawera, a hot spring trickles down a small stream and into the lake, creating our very own hot water beach at Te Rātā Bay.
Kuirau Park
Geothermal Wonders
Check out the natural boiling, bubbling and steaming geothermal action throughout Kuirau Park, New Zealand’s only free geothermal public park!
Sulphur Bay Wildlife Refuge
Geothermal Wonders
Explore an amazing geothermal area where threatened bird populations make their home.
Geyser By Night at Te Puia
Geothermal Wonders
When darkness falls, the true love story of the city's geothermal wonderland comes to life.
Te Puia
Geothermal Wonders
Discover one of New Zealand’s most magnificent geothermal wonderlands and Māori cultural centres.
Whakarewarewa - The Living Māori Village
Geothermal Wonders
Home of the Tuhourangi and Ngāti Wahiao people and located on a geothermal plateau, Whakarewarewa Village is New Zealand’s oldest continuous Māori tourism experience, even pre-dating the world-famous Pink and White Terraces.
Hell's Gate Geothermal Park & Mud Spa
Geothermal Wonders, East
Hell’s Gate is Rotorua’s most active geothermal reserve and New Zealand’s only mud spa complex.
Ōhinemutu Māori Village
Geothermal Wonders
Connect with the culture, people, history and landscape that have made Rotorua the incredible place it is today.