Summary
Background information is included for teachers, as well as curriculum links, getting there information and other considerations to help you with planning your trip.
Pre- on site and follow-up activities provide students with a range of experiences in, about, and for the environment.
Dolamore Park
Dolamore Park is administered by the Gore District Council. The park has toilets, a large children's playground, ample shade trees and camping facilities. There are a number of pleasant short walks through regenerating bush and arboretum plantings. The Education Room is open on request (contact the Gore District Council) and contains an interactive display which focuses on the theme 'The forest ecosystem has a natural balance, upset by introduced predators'.
Croydon Bush Scenic Reserve
Croydon Bush Scenic Reserve is managed by the Department of Conservation. Within the reserve there are several tracks and routes maintained by the Department of Conservation and the Hokonui Tramping Club. The Dolamore Track and the short walk from Dolamore Park to the Sequoia Lookout on the Whisky Creek Track are recommended to school groups.
This easily accessed reserve has toilet and picnicking facilities, well graded walking tracks (including approximately 1 kilometre of wheelchair grade track through the forest), and excellent on site interpretation. Croydon Bush is suitable for field trips year round.
Dolamore Track
This section of track is maintained to walking track standard, with a one kilometre section of wheelchair grade track at the start and takes around 30 minutes to walk. A further 30 minutes can be added to the walk by including a side track to a lookout.
From the Dolamore Park car park, the track crosses the Waimumu Stream. Turn left off the edge of the bridge onto a well formed track which climbs gradually through mixed podocarp hardwood forest towards a ridge. After about 15 minutes, a sign marks a turn- off to a lookout point which provides panoramic views of the Southland Plains, and even Bluff Hill and Rakiura/Stewart Island on a clear day.
The return section of the loop track heads downhill from here and meets up with the boardwalk section which can be followed out to Dolamore Park.
(All but one of the of the activities can be done on this track.)
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