The Oku Street Reserve is an 8-hectare park in Wellington, New Zealand. It is located on a promontory between the suburbs of Island Bay and à Âwhiro Bay, and looks down over Taputeranga Marine Reserve and à Âwhiro Bay. It comprises two small hills with a ridge between them, and has a path and several benches, with two public access points.
In the 1970s the land that is now the reserve was farm pasture. In the late 1980s Fletcher Construction planned a new subdivision on the site, but after local opposition they did a land-swap with Wellington City Council who bought the land and gazetted it as a recreation reserve in 1998. Volunteers replanted the reserve with seedlings from the Council's nursery.
Wellington's City to Sea Walkway passes along Oku Street in Island Bay and traverses the reserve before continuing down Severn Street in à Âwhiro Bay. The park has a path in the middle with some offshoots, and has stairs on either side. It is not wheelchair accessible.
Oku Street Reserve contains several species of endemic flora, such as taupata, koromiko, and tarata. It also is home to a few relict specimens of Cook Strait mahà Âe, which only grows on either side of the Cook Strait.