Fantastic area, could easily spend a few days there, many walks/hikes to do around or just for pure relax with breathtaking views. For LOTR fans - the Frodo tree is super easy to find! Just follow the walkway to the right behind the toilet (orange triangles on trees). After 30 steps or so, when you reach the hill side, the tree will be on your left. And behind it just a little higher is Merry and Pippins tree too. Good luck ;)

Hard to make out the exact place because everything more or less look the same but you can recognise the spot where Sam and Frodo leaves and break the fellowship

Lovely place! You can see the place where the fellowship fell apart and Sam goes into the water , highly recommended!

Recognizable! But even outside the filming location, it's a beautiful place!

The place where the fellowship goes to shore can be seen wonderfully. In the forest you can see the hill where the uruk-hai come running down. We didn't find no ribbons though.

Hard to get to down a very long gravel road, took us about an hour in our campervan. Definitely worth it though.

Those who have seen the films a dozend of times will immediatly recognize the film location :) There are those orange arrows to mark the track though... that only accidentally indicate the film location. You find these orange things on any track in NZ. :)

As a LOTR-fan I would have been disappointed since no place in the forest is really special, you can't see any ribbons and the forest in general looks like any forest in that region. As a normal traveller I would be enthusiastic though, because the location is really stunning. So you should come to this place and enjoy the nice setting. And don't even try to find the film set, the description of it in the last comment is not correct.

A really great spot! Turn on the location at your mobile and just walk directly to the designated area. Turn around once you are there and walk about 50m into the forest. There, orange ribbons are tied to some of the trees, and this is were the film was shot :-)