Paekakariki

A small sea side settlement (population 1700) on the thin coastal plain between the Tasman Sea and the Akatarawa Ranges. It is a railway town and home to the Paekakariki Railway and Heritage Museum.
Local cafés provide refreshment for walkers on the Escarpment Walkway.

GUIDED PAEKAKARIKI ESCARPMENT WALKWAY EXPERIENCE

Initially (in 1886) the rail line from Wellington to Longburn was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company but was bought by the Government in 1908 to complete the main trunk from Wellington to Auckland.

Image Credit: Celia Walker, Sabrina Xavier, and Paekakariki**, 1883, New Zealand, by John Gully. Gift of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, 1936. Te Papa; View of Paekakariki Station and Houses, looking South, Photography by Albert Percy Godber, Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Kapiti Coast by Marianne Muggeridge