Last Updated: 9th Sep 2024
Te Rau Puriri Regional Park
Submitted by Mike Tennent
Last Updated: 9th Sep 2024
Open
Grunt Factor: 20 ?
Gnarl Factor: 35 ?
7.3km
320m
320m
130m
Last Updated: 9th Sep 2024
Submitted by Mike Tennent
Last Updated: 9th Sep 2024
Open
Grunt Factor: 20 ?
Gnarl Factor: 35 ?
7.3km
320m
320m
130m
Back country - remote
Loop
Undulating, some big hills
Native bush
Coastal
Open farmlands
Open ridges/tops
Farm Road / 4WD Track
Moderate Single Track
Average Uphill Gradient: +9.2%
Average Downhill Gradient: -9.7%
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The first thing you will notice when you arrive is that the trails are all below you... so it's down on the way out (mostly) and up on the way back - yeehaa!!! To the left of the carpark is the map. You are taking the orange trail (the horse trail).
Start off following the orange and red poles heading left to do a clockwise loop. You will come onto a well formed farm road and you need to stay on that to the end. Once you pass the end you will see the poles ahead of you are just red... however to the left they are orange. This is the was we are going - the red is a boring easy farm track... the orange will warm you up!!! Eventually the orange and red tracks merge again, then about halfway up the return leg at the top of one wee climb you will see another orange only pole to the left, that's the way to go and follow it to the carpark.
Great views over the Kaipara Harbour.
Single long drop toilet in the regional park carpark.
Plenty of parking and a loo
34 km
33 minutes
Unknown
No
Easy.
Patchy.
Long-sleeved thermal top, Windproof jacket, Beanie/thermal headwear, Whistle, First aid kit, Extra food for emergencies, Cellphone, Map
No drinkable water.
From the end of July until about November is lambing time. The good news is that these guys don't close the trails, the bad news is that they have animals in just about every paddock and (especially early in the season like today) when the lambs are young and there are quite a few who haven't dropped their lambs yet, then you need to walk quietly around the mums and not scare them.
Animals.... if you don't handle being around farm animals then don't go on this trail, as there are paddocks full of of sheep and cattle. That said, they all seem quite comfortable with humans and unlikely to give problems.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this trail and the views. Ran this just after heavy rainfall. Paddocks on the second half were a little water-logged. Nothing major though. Also quite exposed. Felt that wind when it picked up.
November 20, 2022
Love this trail, although I prefer going anti-clockwise on the shorter loop, as the view out is stunning and I am a lumbering, wheezing meat-sack in need of distraction.
August 1, 2021
Great trail, a good mix of terrain, and some step slopes! Just when you think you're at the same height as you parked the car you get to dip back down on the "horse track" and loop back up :-)
May 19, 2020
Great track, had me pretty buggered on the way back up the hills! Loved it.
February 22, 2020
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