Mauao - Round, Up and Down

There are many different routes you can take on Mauao / Mount Maunganui; this one is a good route to get a lap of the base track and a summit in, going up the most popular route.

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Starting at the Pilot Bay boat ramp, head around the base track in a clockwise direction.

Go all the way around and after approx. 2.8km, just before the base track heads down towards the surf club and Main Beach, turn right up a set of wooden steps. These soon turn into a short set of stone steps.

After the stone steps, keep going up (Oruahine track), until you reach another set of steps and a track junction. Take the left track here, up the Waikorire track (also know as "the stairs"). This track is 50:50 track and steps.

Approx 3.9km into the run, you come to another junction; take the right track, signposted to the summit, and follow this track to the top.

From the top, go straight over, following the wide 4WD track, past a stunning lookout point, and then start descending.

Following this 4WD track all the way down. Very near the bottom, take a right off the 4WD track down a short set of steps to get back onto the base track and then back to Pilot Bay boat ramp.