Wairoa River - Information

Trip Times

This can be flexible - generally we meet at our base in Turangi at 7:30am or at the river at 10:30am.

Allow three hours in total for the trip with 1.5 hours spent on the river.

The Wairoa river is Dam controlled and only flows 26 days of the year on given Sundays - the dates available for the upcoming season are listed below.

2012

November: 11th & 25th

December: 9th, 23rd & 30th

2013

January: 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th

Feburary: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th

March: 3rd & 10th

Later dates in March and April are reserved for the "Extreme Day" - two grade five rivers in the same day!