3 Tikorangi Road West, Tikorangi, New Plymouth
This pre-contact Te Atiawa pa is the on the northern bank of the Waitara River. From the end of the road it is an half hour walk (on a paper road). En route you will pass on your right , the Tikorangi Redoubt errected by Taranaki Militia Volunteers in June 1865. (The redoubt site is on private land). The pa site is in bush and a Conservation reserve. Look for the defensive ditches and, throughout the pa, underground food storage pits.
A full report has been done by the Department of Conservation.
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