Pukemokemoke LoopBeginner

Description

From the carpark, head across the bridge, taking care to clean shoes carefully at the Kauri dieback station. This is a loop, so once across the bridge you can choose to turn left, then take the first track on the right, following orange arrows to run up the boardwalk through beautiful Kauri forest and up past the sign labelling Kawakawa grove to the summit.

There is a wooden platform at the summit with incredible 360 degree views right over the Waikato. Information panels on the summit tower provide details about the views before you. The view is magnificent during the daytime, but also magical at night, when the lights of Hamilton, Morrinsville, Huntly and Gordonton surround below, and millions of stars shine from above.

To complete the loop, continue beneath the viewing platform and alongside the fenceline down along a moderately technical single track through the bush, again following orange arrows, which will bring you out at a clearing with a round wooden gazebo in the middle of it. Both the North East track and Mangatea track will lead back to the log hauler clearing. Cross the clearing to rejoin the 4WD track that will lead back to the bridge you started from.

Maps are available at the carpark and in a plastic box behind the gazebo. Put these back if you no longer need them after you've used them. For a good run I prefer to run up the Mangatea track, then stretch out back down the boardwalk.

Features of interest

Boardwalk protects the roots of a beautiful Kauri forest. Some rope swings in the bush to the left just past the gazebo at the log hauler site are great entertainment for young Wild Things! Several trees are identified with labels.

Make Up of Run

Moderate Single Track: 70%

Easy Single Track: 30%

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