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Fairy Pool, Ōkoroire

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Fairy Pool, Ōkoroire

In the 2000s the Fairy Pool at Ōkoroire still looks much as it did when this photograph was taken in 1893. Ten years earlier a hotel was built at Ōkoroire for travellers wanting to bathe in the nearby hot pools. It was still standing in 2010.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Putaruru and Tīrau, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27351/fairy-pool-okoroire (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.