Walking Time: 40 minutes each way – easy beach walking plus lookout Important: choose 2 hours each side of low tide for each direction of your walk. Access: Walkway can be accessed from either Whangaumu Bay (south end of the beach) or Ngunguru (Te Maika Road) Directions: The access to the Lookout is from the Read More…
Walkways
The Tutukaka Coast offers walkers and coastal scenery lovers of all fitness levels and ages an extensive range of spectacular and world-class short to long walks. The panoramic scenery is breathtaking, the beaches pristine and often secluded and the native New Zealand bush superb. Whether you have 5 minutes or several hours available there is a walkway for you on the Tutukaka Coast.
Tane Moana Walkway (Giant Kauri)
Walking Time: 2 hours return via the walking track Important: Good shoes recommended, this walk may take longer for some people. No other road access is possible along the path. Directions: The track starts on Waitoi Road in Ngunguru. You will pass through logging forest before reaching the largest kauri tree remaining on the East Read More…
Tutukaka Headland: Lighthouse Walkway
Walking Time: to the Lighthouse 1 hour return Important: choose an hour either side of low tide for this walk (weather permitting), good shoes recommended. Access/Carparking: Access to the car park and reserve is 600m north past Marina Road, Tutukaka via the Private Road (blue signage) and from there follow signs. Directions: A grassy track Read More…
Matapouri to Whale Bay Walkway
Ringer Ave Carpark at Matapouri Bay (left off Morrison Ave) to Whale Bay beach. Walking Time: 45 minutes round trip (also allow time to enjoy the beaches, have a picnic or a swim) Access: A combination of walking on the beach, dirt track and gravel track, steep climbing at times. Quite steep if you access the path Read More…
Whale Bay Walkway
Whale Bay Carpark (top of the hill on Matapouri Rd after Matapouri Bay) to Whale Bay beach. Walking Time: 30 minutes round trip (also allow time to enjoy the beach, have a picnic or a swim) Access: Well maintained gravel track, steep at times. Stairs at the bottom or a pathway to the beach. Suitable Read More…
Te Araroa – The Long Pathway
Down the coastline, through the forest, across farmland, over volcanoes and mountain passes, along river valleys, and on green pathways across seven cities. New Zealand’s longest pathway, and indeed the world, passes through Tutukaka, and the Giant Kauri tree, Tane Moana. The track climbs through delightful private pasture lands, pine forest and regenerating bush where Read More…
Rauhomaumau Bay to William Parata Walkway
Walking Time: 30 minutes oneway. Access: Steep grassy track and pebby beach walking. Good shoes and a good level of fitness are recommended. Carparking: Road parking on Rauhomaumau Rd (follow Tutukaka Block Road (off Matapouri Road as you decend the hill towards Tutukaka Marina) then Motel Road on the left – Rauhomaumau Rd veers right a Read More…
Tutukaka Estates Short Walk & Lookout
Walking Time: 5 minutes oneway to the lookout with an optional additional 6 minute circular bush walk at the top. Access: Includes a steep walk up a concrete path and a well maintained bush track. The path will get your heart pumping but the views are worth the climb. Carparking: Parking outside the security gate at Read More…
Ngunguru Mangrove Walkway
Ngunguru Library to Munroe Place. This walkway was developed by the local community with the elderly and physically challenged in mind, The pleasant stroll includes paths through bush and boardwalks through mangroves. Seating is provided along the way and the sheltered pathway is safe and well maintained. Walking Time: 20 minutes round trip at an Read More…
Whangarei Falls
At the edge of Whangarei (off the road to Tutukaka) is a park containing the dramatic Whangarei Falls. You can view these viewing platforms above, walk down to the bottom to see them from below and also enjoy a longer circular walk to the AH Reid Memorial Kauri Park, which takes around 1 hour to Read More…
Waro Limestone Reserve
Features interesting limestone formations, 40 million years old. Picnic tables and toilet. Lake in flooded old mine workings.
