Echo Walking Festival - Kaimai to Coromandel
Explore your own backyard in April with a walking festival hosted by locals, for locals and visitors alike- the Echo Walking Festival. Now in it’s sixth consecutive year, the nine day series of events covers the Kaimai to Coromandel, traversing ranges, discovering estuaries, summiting mountains, braving tunnels and enjoying coastal walkways.
Every year organisers strive to find new walking opportunities, with enough variety to cater for all age and fitness levels. Look out for next year's programme available from January 2010.
Walking the Waitawheta Tramway
Over 600 people from all over the upper North Island registered to take part in the 2009 Festival.The Festival team co-ordinated a variety of guided walks - but most of these tracks are open to the public year round.
The Echo Walking Festival is not-for-profit event held by town promoters in Katikati, Waihi, Paeroa, Thames, Coromandel and Te Aroha, supported by Sport Waikato and the Department of Conservation.
Contact the festival committee if your club or organisation would like to be involved in the 2010 Echo Walking Festival.