Kahurangi National Park

Kahurangi National Park is the second largest as well as being the youngest being created in 1996.

At over 450,000 hectares this is arguably New Zealand’s most diverse National park, and this is reflected in the sheer diversity of flora and fauna found in this area.

Translated, its name has a number of meanings including 'treasured possession', an apt description of its wonderfully diverse natural and recreational values.

In places it is an untracked wilderness, elsewhere a wonderful network of tracks lets you explore wild rivers, high plateaus and alpine fields, and coastal forests.

Kahurangi is in the northwest corner of the Nelson Region and can be accessed from many areas. Motueka, Takaka, Karamea, Tapawera and Murchison are some of the park's gateway towns.

There are more than 570 kilometres of walking and tramping tracks in the park. The more popular longer walks include the Heaphy Track (one of New Zealand's Great Walks) and the Wangapeka Track.

The Heaphy Track

Located in Kahurangi National Park at the north-west corner of the South Island, is the longest of the DOC Great Walks. The track crosses the Park’s range of landscapes, starting from the junction of the Brown and Aorere Rivers, over expansive tussock downs to the lush forests, nikau palms and roaring seas of the West Coast.

The track is well formed and suitable for fit, well-equipped people. All rivers and major streams are bridged. The track takes four to six days to walk total distance is 78.4 kilometres. More information click here

 

The Wangapeka Track

Traverses the Kahurangi National Park from the Waimea Basin in the east to the West Coast near Karamea in the west. It crosses two saddles of over 1000 metres and travels through beautiful beech-forested valleys of the Wangapeka, Karamea, Taipo and Little Wanganui rivers.

You will need a reasonable level of fitness and is upto 4 - 6 days one way total distance of 59km

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