Birchville Dam is a historic dam in the Akatarawa Forest, near Craigs Flat in Upper Hutt. It is reached on the Cannon Point Walkway, which is an easy to intermediate forest walk. Along the way walkers get views of a waterfall.
For someone in Upper Hutt or the Hutt Valley who wants a forest walk with a historic dam at the end of it, the Cannon Point Walkway is the route to take.