Activities in Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park
Tracks and walks
Various walks, including overnight tramps, cater for all fitness levels.
This track leads you down to the base of a waterfall and large swimming hole. When the tramline ends the track follows haul lines to the summit.
This track is relatively flat but requires several river crossings as it follows an old tramline through the spectacular Waitawheta Gorge.
This is a multi-day tramp using rugged, unmarked routes. Trampers will need to camp in addition to staying in huts.
This easy, peaceful walking track lingers beside a small fresh water stream.
There is a popular lookout through this track with scenic views over the northern Bay of Plenty.
This track showcases beautiful scenery, good swimming holes and interesting mining relics.
This walking track is a beautiful cool, retreat during the summer months, with mature tawa-podocarp forest, a lovley stream with swimming holes and three impressive kauri trees that are growing at around their southern most limit.
Grass clearings and an old fence are a legacy of days gone by when this section was highly modified by burning and farming.
Kauri trees feature on these walks. Retrace an old Maori route that was also used as a bridle track in the 1980s.
Enjoy walking along the former Waitengaue bush tramway on this track.
Enjoy more of a challenge with the Aongatete Long Loop Walk.
This area contains some lovely lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest with a variety of native species.
A highlight along this track is the extensive groves of nikau nestled under tall tawa, kohekohe and puketea forest.
Evidence of the past can be savoured today as trampers walk through the Eliza Mine Loop Track.
See some of the Bay of Plenty's remnant Kauri giants on this track.
Other activities
Rapurapu Kauri trees, Kaimai Mamaku
Forest Park
Hunting with a permit is allowed. A permit is obtainable from Department of Conservation.
Please contact the Department of Conservation for more information before entering the Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park.
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