A new car park at the popular Egmont Road entrance to Te Papakura o Taranaki will make it easier for locals and visitors to access Taranaki Maunga during peak periods.
Currently, the available car park areas along Egmont Road and around the visitor centre aren’t enough to meet demand during the busiest holiday times. This new car park will have 145 parking spaces as well as a toilet, hand sanitising station and shelter.
The Waiwhakaiho Track will open directly onto the new car park, and there’ll be the opportunity for private shuttle bus operators to run services between the site and the visitor centre at the top of Egmont Road.
Please be aware that construction activity will require stop-go traffic management on Egmont Road from time to time.
Construction started in November 2025 and the car park is scheduled to open for public use in April 2026 (weather permitting).
$2m for the car park, toilets, a hand sanitising station and shelter. In addition, in 2019 NPDC bought the land for $335,000.
The $2m is coming from Council budgets but NPDC is also seeking funding from the national tourism levy to offset the cost.
Any extension of that car park would remove sensitive alpine land areas, which is what visitors go up there to experience. Also, for most of the year the available car parks are enough to meet the demand; it’s only during peak season that there’s pressure on parking spaces, which the Egmont Road car park will help to alleviate.
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Page last updated: 10:27am Mon 24 November 2025