Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
Waipu Coastal Trail loop
Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
Grunt Factor: 6
Gnarl Factor: 34
4.5km
75m
75m
65m
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Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
Grunt Factor: 6
Gnarl Factor: 34
4.5km
75m
75m
65m
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Front country - easily accessible
Loop
Undulating, small hills only
Native bush
Beach
Coastal
Sealed Road
Gravel Road
Moderate Single Track
Technical Single Track
Average Uphill Gradient: +6.8%
Average Downhill Gradient: -7.3%
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0:45
Slow
0:35
Moderate
0:25
Fast
Cross the estuary from the carpark and look for the orange markers to stay on route. You follw the track along the coast, at the 2KM mark veer right on the track junction. When you get to the road cross to the other side and run up the hill, there is a gravel track or verge on the left side of cove road going back to Waipu cove. Watch for traffic when running on this section.
There are the amazing Waipu pancake rocks!!! Like the Punakaiki rocks but just in the north island. Plenty of birdlife here also
Good safe parking and plenty of it here although it will be busy in summer and might be harder to find a park with people parking down the road.
8 km
7 minutes
Unknown
No
Easy.
You could turn left at the 2KM junction and run the additional little loop to ding bay then come back on the cove road. Might be another 1K
Patchy.
Cellphone.
At parking lot
Lots of people on track during summer. Run early morning or evenings in height of holiday season
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Nice short run wth beautiful views.The run down the side of the road is a well maintaned gravel path so nice and safe. If running in the middle of winter when the trail is very wet and muddy do not wear road shoes, unless you like a challenge or are one stubbie short of a six pack like me :).
July 24, 2020
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