Maungaraki is a suburb of Lower Hutt City situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is located on the western hills of the Hutt Valley with access to the area via State Highway 2 and offers extensive views of Wellington harbour and Matiu/Somes Island. It contains the largest suburban development on the Hutt Valley's western escarpment that runs along the Wellington Fault. Maungaraki translated from Māori means: "mountains to the north", this probably references the Māori pā to the south that once stood at Pito-one (Petone).