Te Urewera National Park was a national park near the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, established as such in 1954 and disestablished in 2014, when it was replaced by a new legal entity and protected area named Te Urewera.
[3] On 28 July 1954, the catchment areas of Lake Waikaremoana and Lake Waikareiti and other Crown reserves were gazetted as a national park, and by 1957 proposals were well under way to add the rest of the Crown land in Te Urewera north of Ruatāhuna.
Further additions were made in 1962, 1975, and 1979, with smaller acquisitions of land and boundary alterations in the intervening period.
In March 2013, the Tūhoe people signed a deed of settlement, settling the tribe's claims under the Waitangi Tribunal.
The name means "burnt penis" in the Māori language and reflects a local legend.