Moonshine Valley or Moonshine is a suburb of Upper Hutt in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand. It comprises a rural area located northwest of urban Upper Hutt and south of Paekākāriki. It is a rural locality and thinly populated valley with a population of around 228 in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, centred on the Moonshine Hill Road which leaves State Highway 58 near Judgeford and goes over the Tararua Range to the Riverstone Terraces suburbs and then joins River Road, Upper Hutt.
Localisation
It is mostly in Upper Hutt, but part is in Porirua. BRANZ, the Building Research Association of New Zealand headquarters is at the beginning of Moonshine Road near Judgeford. Whisky Way is a road running off Moonshine Valley Road.