Orum Road/Te Araroa loop

From the car park, head down the road for approximately a hundred meters and turn right onto the Te Araroa trail. There are a number of stairs which are heavily eroded and take you down between two small stream waterfalls. Once at the bottom, cross the stream and head up into the native bush to the right and follow the trail (can be a little hard to follow through the thick bush, but is marked by orange tags).

There are a few small stream crossings as you run along the Wairoa river (on your left) of which some have some logs laid to cross. The trail begins to climb away from the river and zigzags up until a little over 1.5km from the start. From here, turn sharp right leaving the Te Araroa and continue heading uphill through the pine forests. The wide trail climbs uphill with a few undulations and can be very slippery after rain with mud under the pine needles. At approximately 2.7km the wide trail narrows and winds its way through thicker bush (marked with spray paint on trees and some tags) before you come out onto Orum Road.

Turn left and follow the road for another 2km keeping left. At approximately the 5km mark turn left back into the pine forest onto another wide trail and follow downhill - a lot of fallen pine trees cross over the trail along here. The track splits off at around the 6km mark, but keep right and continue down steeper downhill sections with some zigzags. The wide track comes out of the pine forest and meets the river and Te Araroa trail once again. Turn left onto the single trail and follow back along with the river to your right.

At around the 9km mark the trail starts climbing back up and away from the Wairoa river for about 500m to the point at which you first headed into the pine forest. Keep right and head downhill to the river and follow the trail you first came up. Keep to the left of the Wairoa river and follow the single track, over the stream crossings and back through the native bush until you get to the stairs which take you back out of the trail and onto the Cossey Access road. Turn left and head back up to the car park.