Owhango is a small town in New Zealand situated about 20 km south of Taumarunui on State Highway 4 (SH4). Formerly Owhango was a Mill Town, milling native timbers from around the local area. The mill burned to the ground in the 1970s. Many of the mill houses are now holiday homes owned by city dwellers keen on the skiing, fishing, hunting, canoeing and tramping opportunities that abound in the surrounding area.
The village has a population of little more than 200 and has a primary school, a ski shop, dairy, garage (no fuel sold there, however), hotel, accommodation lodges, motel, cottages for hire and bed and breakfast/homestay places. The village is one of the most picturesque in New Zealand with a backdrop of native forest and Mount Ruapehu. In the spring, the village trees and gardens are alive with native birds, most notably tui and Kererū. A delightful domain set amongst native forest features large open playing fields, children’s play area and two tennis courts.
The native forest is part of the Ohinetonga Scenic Reserve which contains unlogged old growth native forest containing some forest giants and a pretty lagoon accessible from a looped walking track. A road through the reserve – signposted from the State Highway – leads down to one of New Zealand’s most famous river scenes, the view from the old logging bridge over the Whakapapa River. Along the river are memorable picnic spots with superb swimming pools containing rainbow and brown trout. And also a launch point for Kayakist heading for Kakahi, or even further down the Whanganui River.
Beyond the bridge is the vast expanse of Tongariro Forest, once the source of timber for the local mill, but now protected as conservation land thanks to a successful campaign in the 1980s led by local people to save the forest from clearance. Bisecting the forest is one of New Zealand’s best mountain bike rides, the “42 Traverse”. The forest also has excellent tramping, camping and deer hunting opportunities. In the heart of the regenerating forest is one of only a handful of national kiwi sanctuaries where the Department of Conservation controls alien predators to protect a population of the North Island

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