Piano Flat & Wakiaia Forest tramping tracks
Track category
Tramping track
Description
Ngahere Ara track
Time: 30 min return
This is an easy walk leading to mine shafts and an operational water race built in the gold mining days.
Piano Flat Creek Loop track
Time: 1 hr return
This track passes through beech forest and signs of early sawmilling days.
Waikaia River track
Time: 4 hr return
Swingbridge over the river track
This track follows up the true right of the river, crosses a swing bridge and returns along the opposite bank and along the road.
Titan Rocks track
Time: 7 hr return
A marked route, this rewarding tramp offers excellent views from above the bush line.
Getting there
Waikaia is situated 54 km north of Gore beside the Waikaia River.