Getting to know Percy Scenic Reserve
With a mix of garden areas, tracks and lawns, this park offers a mix of recreation and amenity horticulture in a compact location, handy from State Highway Two.
It’s unique! The reserve has links to the earliest settlement in our area, with historic plant collections of scientific significance, and it plays an active role in preserving New Zealand’s plants.
No dogs are allowed in the park, and it’s not suitable for mountain biking.
Finding Percy Scenic Reserve
You’ll find Percy Scenic Reserve at 5 Dowse Drive, Maungaraki.
Finding the reserve by public transport:
- Take bus 150 from Queensgate Westfield
- Take the Lower Hutt train from Wellington to Petone, go over walk-bridge, path and boardwalk from Korokoro.
Our facilities
The reserve offers:
- 45 free carparks off Dowse Drive
- Two free coach parks
- Bush walking tracks of varying grades and lengths, accessible from Dowse Drive, Stanhope Grove and Korokoro Road
- Toilets
- Pond
- Open lawns for picnics, passive events and photographs
- Connecting tracks to Ratanui, the previous homestead of Sir James Hector
- Links to Frank Cameron Park
- Covered picnic tables
- Seating
- Ornamental replica mill waterwheel
- Weta and glow worm cave
- Waterfall
- Regenerating gullies and endangered plant collections
- Earth dam and spillway
- Nursery buildings
Our opening hours
Percy Scenic Reserve is open all day, every day, all year round. The carpark is open from dawn to dusk every day.
Make a booking
Get in touch with us to make a booking.