The 2025 Manawatu Walking Festival will take you throughout the city, along our coastlines, across mountain ranges, through our urban arts scene and through Te Apiti – Manawatu Gorge.

Pick and choose from the selection of guided walks that are hosted throughout the three-day festival from 7th to 9th March 2025.

Hosting this year’s festival is a range of experts from experienced tramping guides, historians, conservationists, story-tellers and photographers. There are walks for all ages and fitness levels, with plenty of options to choose from including some popular favorites from previous years for 2025.

Bookings are essential as limited spaces available.

For tickets and information on walk durations, start times, transport and space available, please visit each walk's listing on Eventfinda or the website for more information.

- Twilight Beach Walk - Foxton Beach to Himatangi Beach
- Horizons Totara Reserve Fern Walk with Horizons
- Sculpture Walk - with Peter Shelton
- Klein Track Walk with Bob Hodgson
- River, Native Bush and Views with Manawatu Striders
- Sledge Track, Toe, Platinum Mines Loop with Hikers Manawatu Group
- Bridges, Eels and Birds with Tyler Wood
- Te Apiti – Manawatu Gorge Walk
- Fitzherbert, River and Awapuni Loop Walk - Manawatu Trail Walkers
- Night River Walk with Manawau Striders

The weather: This festival is centered around the outdoors, but unfortunately, the weather isn’t always on our side. If any event is cancelled due to weather, the information will appear on our website.