Brown Owl is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 3 - 4km from the city centre. Developed slowly from the 1960s, it had a population of 1157 at the 2013 Census. The suburb is located on the eastern side of the Hutt River at the base of the Eastern Hutt Valley Hills and Emerald Hill, with SH2 running right through it. It is bordered by Timberlea to the east (at the intersection of SH2 and Norana Road in the northeast), Maoribank to the south of SH2 at Moeraki Road, and Birchville just past the northern side of Harcourt Park on Akatarawa Road. Totara Park can be accessed by foot by crossing the Harcourt Park Bridge at the end of Norbert Street.