Waingaro

Waingaro is a rural community in the Waikato District of New Zealand's North Island where natural hot springs feed the Waingaro Hot Springs resort, a long-established family thermal attraction using bicarbonate-rich geothermal water in a cluster of outdoor heated pools and waterslides in a farmland setting beside the Waingaro River, west of Hamilton. The Waingaro springs have operated as a community thermal recreation facility since the mid-20th century, serving the Waikato farming communities and Hamilton urban visitors who have made the relaxed, family-oriented hot spring pool experience a cornerstone of Waikato weekend leisure culture. The rural West Waikato landscape of rolling hills, black angus cattle farms, and the native bush remnants of the Waingaro Forest Reserve surrounding the springs creates a distinctly pastoral New Zealand backdrop for thermal bathing culture.