A Coastal Wonderland: Pōhutukawa of The Coromandel

1. Sleemans Park - On Victoria Street in the park is a picturesque reserve overlooking the water with pōhutukawa for shade and picnic tables available for use.
2. Soldiers Memorial Park - In the centre of Whitianga at Soldiers Memorial Park are three pōhutukawa. A great place to have a picnic and pay your respects. For those visiting on a Saturday, the Whiti City Markets run on Saturdays in beautiful Soldiers Memorial Park.
3. Lovers Rock - Whitianga has many amazing specimen of pōhutukawa including along the estuary from Lovers Rock Scenic Reserve in Robinson Road.
4. Buffalo Beach - The waters edge at Buffalo Beach also boasts several pōhutukawa trees.

1. Cooks Beach - Stella Evered Memorial Park has dozens of ancient, very large pōhutukawa. Access is from Lees Road.
2. Hahei Beach to Te Pare Point - Follow the walkway from Tutaritari Reserve at the northern end of Hahei Beach and the DOC walkway to Te Pare Point at the end of Pa Road at the southern end, where you will take in the full length of Hahei Beach and the spectacular pōhutukawa that have made this place their home.
3. Hot Water Beach - There are many pōhutukawa at the main car park and reserve on the eastern end including two that have yellow flowers. The old par site on the headland at Hot Water Beach is literally covered with pōhutukawa with some very old specimens at the top.
4. Lonely Bay - This beautiful little bay just north of Cooks Beach is home to some more stunning pōhutukawa

1. Coromandel Town - This pōhutukawa stands proud in the memorial reserve area, alongside the commemorative artwork 'Ship in a bottle' by Rebekah Pearson for the 200th anniversary of the anchoring of the British Naval Ship H.M.S Coromandel.
2. Oamaru Bay - The foreshore reserve at the northern end of the bay has a stand of pōhutukawa. One of these old trees planted by Bricky Park in 1953 is known locally as 'The Christmas Tree'. This is one of the most photographed pōhutukawa's on the western side of The Coromandel and has a plaque up in the tree dedicated to Bricky.
3. Northern Coromandel - The Pōhutukawa along the western coast shoreline are one of the most beautiful displays on offer. Positioned at the base of the Moehau Ranges, in places the road winds in and out of their aged twisted trunks.
4. Opera Point - On your arrival into Whangapoua, pōhutukawa can be viewed right at Opera Point. The walk here is currently closed due to cyclone damage.
5. Wainuiototo (New Chum Beach)  - The walk to Wainuiototo will greet you with a beautiful display of pōhutukawa which spans one end of the beach to the other. Wainuiototo is one of the most attractive and isolated beaches on The Coromandel.

The Thames Coast is lined with pōhutukawa trees as the road hugs the coast from Thames to Coromandel Town. In summer the road is cloaked in the red velvet of flowering pōhutukawa. Tararu Valley also has a number of pōhutukawa.

1. Te Puru Domain - Here you will find some mighty pōhutukawa trees, one (behind the tennis courts)  has been earmarked as historically significant.
2. Waiomu - The Waiomu domain has some real beauties to view with the stunning firth as a backdrop. Another great picnic spot and freedom camping area. Across the road at the Waiomu Cafe is the perfect spot to grab a coffee or ice cream.

1. SH 25a - Traveling on State Highway 25a between Kopu and Hikuai about a third of the way up the hill you can see Rata very close to the road. The trees have metal collars around their trunks to protect them from possum.
2. Thames Coastal Walkway - From Goldfields Shopping Centre in Thames walk through to Victoria Park along the Coastal Walkway boardwalk, where the route will take you past several pōhutukawa. You'll pass an old bird hide along this route before passing the small gauge railway and onto Victoira Park, where you will see several more stunning displays dotted throughout the Park.
3. Victoria Park - Along Beach Road, Brown Street, between Karaka Stream, the tennis club and Victoria Park Rotunda have many spectacular pōhutukawa. Victoria Park is of historical significance because of the Thames Railway. Use it as a great meeting place, picnic area for the  family and friends or enjoy a romantic stroll amongst the pōhutukawa which flower profusely in season.
4. Thames High School - A stand of pōhutukawa lines the eastern boundary of the school playing fields.
5. Rhodes Park Memorial Reserve - The World War One Memorial Forest in Rhodes Park is a commemoration of 247 Thames District Soldiers who died during WW1. A tree, many of which are pōhutukawa, for each soldier who passed as been planted.
   

1. Sailors Grave - There are pōhutukawa trees nestled amongst the bush along the roadside and around the carpark to Sailors grave. The banks along the beach at Sailors Grave overhang with pōhutukawa, giving welcoming shade over the summer months to beach goers.
2. Tairua-  Tairua has many pōhutukawa trees dotted around the whole area and spotted along walking tracks. On the corner of State Highway 25 & Rewarewa Valley Road is a spectacular pōhutukawa. Pepe Reserve has many pōhutukawa. Paku Road has
   trees on the drive up the hill and at Paku Point.
3. Tairua Cemetery - Main Road Tairua. During the time between 1864 and 1876 several deaths occurred at the local mill. When the first deaths occurred at the mill authorities are said to have instructed, "bury him (or her) up under the pōhutukawa tree at the foot of the hill". This it seems, marked the beginning of the Tairua graveyard, later to be known as "The Cemetery".