Hell's Gate Geothermal Park & Mud Spa
A Māori-owned geothermal reserve at Tikitere with steaming mud pools, sulphur lakes and a warm waterfall.
Photo: W. Bulach, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Source temperature
- 100°C
- Bathing temperature
- 40°C
- Bathing
- Outdoor
Hell's Gate, or Tikitere, has been under the guardianship of Ngāti Rangiteaorere for centuries and is the most active geothermal reserve in the Rotorua area. A walking track passes boiling pools and steaming ground to Kakahi Falls, and the spa alongside offers geothermal mud and sulphur bathing.
Balnevia view
Why visit
It combines a genuinely dramatic thermal field with a bathing tradition that is Māori-led and locally owned, rather than a resort built on top of it.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Tikitere geothermal field
- Mineralisation
- Sulphur and geothermal mud
- Character
- An active field of boiling pools and mud; Kakahi Falls is a warm thermal waterfall.
Location
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