Tamahunga Trail

Recommended activities Hiking, Birdwatching More
Apr 22nd, 2023

Apr 7th, 2023

Apr 4th, 2023

ONE OF THE WORST HIKES EVER The hike is quite challenging, I would it recommend only for fit people and good resistance, not for kids or elderly people. Lets start by saying that the shield says the way to the summit is 1,5 hour, which is true if you are really good and never taking a break, otherwise it would take you 2/2 and a half hours. The track was all muddy, full of branches and sometimes not clear to follow, the orange stripes on the trees were missing in some spots and you had to totally guess where to go. The first part is quite nice, you have some nice trees and some signs explaining the birds that lives there and a nice river to refresh yourself. After that it gets steep as hell, you need very good climbing shoes and be careful if its muddy you going to risk to fall down and get yourself hurt. But all of that was quite fun and adventurous for us, because we like those kind of challenges. But in the end it got really worse: what I usually expect from a hike is that in the end, at the top, I get my reward which is a nice lookout or panorama to enjoy and recognise that the hard climb was worth it. Well you get at the very top, the antenna, and you see nothing. All is covered by high trees and you barely see anything. The pictures of the lookout that people post here on google are made in a very small spot you can find on the way back. But this was not the worst. After we decided to keep going and descend from the other side (towards matakana) and the track was as well bad as the previous one. After 4 long exhausting hours, with no more water and food, we ended up on a road between matakana and whangaripo, and that forced us to hitchhike all the way back to our car, and it took us another 1 and a half hour. Definitely not worth. NOT RECOMMENDED
Feb 28th, 2023

Dec 20th, 2022