Summary
Cover of the brochure showing
Hawkdun Range
Oteake Conservation Park and adjoining public conservation land, cover large sections of the St Bathans, Ewe, Hawkdun, Ida and St Marys Ranges and parts of the upper Manuherikia Basin.
The park offers: tramping, mountain biking, mountain touring in 4WD vehicles, angling, backcountry skiing, horse riding and hunting.
Oteake protects a distinctive and memorable landscape; almost 65,000 hectares of mountainous high country, tussock plateaus, scree slopes, shrubland, and wetland. The distinctive flat-topped Hawkdun Range is the park's centrepiece; often featured in painting, photography, poetry and prose.
The brochure gives information on the history, flora and fauna and recreation at Oteake, and it provides brief descriptions for the following tracks:
- Manuherikia River Tracks
- West Manuherikia Track
- East Manuherikia Track
- Mutton Creek Track
- Saddle Ridge Track
- Homestead Track
- Berwen Track
- Ewe Range Track
- Mt Ida Water Race Track
- Johnstones Creek Track
- Mt Buster Track
- Mt Kyeburn Track
- Otamatapaio Hut