Another feature is the millennium walking track that follows the Taieri River from the mouth through the lower gorge to Henley.

It is located in the Clutha District on the boundary of Dunedin City and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Lake Waihola.

According to oral tradition in the early 18th century Tuwiriroa moved from Mount Aspiring / Tititea on the Kawarau River near modern Queenstown and built a pā, Motupara, near Taieri Mouth.

The daughter and son now fell in love but the woman's father, the chief of the Taieri Mouth pā, disapproved.

Hearing his enemies had discovered his whereabouts he decided to abandon the upriver settlement and move his people further south.

As they came down the river in their canoes the distraught young woman attempted to jump from a rock into her lover's craft but struck the prow and was killed.

Adding insult to injury her head was severed and held up angrily to her people on the shore as the flotilla passed by to the sea.

[5] On 4 July 2024 the area saw the finding of a deceased intact 5 metres (16 ft) male blackish-silver specimen of the almost unknown Mesoplodon traversii (spade-toothed whale) was washed ashore.