Mangatutu Hot Springs

Mangatutu Hot Springs is a Department of Conservation site in Kaweka Forest Park, Hawke's Bay, where thermal water issues naturally from a hole in an undercut riverbank and trickles down a bluff into two simple channelled pools. It sits beside the Mohaka River, about 75 km northwest of Napier via Puketitiri and Makahu Roads, with the final stretch on unsealed gravel and a river ford roughly 7.5 km from the road end — four-wheel drive is recommended. There is no operator or facility on site; it functions as a DOC camping, picnic, and tramping access point.