Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks - Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks Waiorongomai Road
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Contact Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks
| Address : | Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks Waiorongomai Road, Te Aroha West 3391, New Zealand |
| Postal code : | 3391 |
| Website : | https://www.waikatonz.com/experiences/walking-hiking-trails/waiorongomai-valley-te-aroha/ |
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Jasley McSaveney on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful tracks. Lots of history. Great views. The inclines are worth checking out.
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Heather Staal on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lovely track an waterfall
Even got to see 2 wild goats an 2 tui playing while we ate lunch in bush
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Mauricio Kimura on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the best trekking experience we’ve had, easy for kids and not to intense for adults. The best part was climbing over the train tracks up to the very top of the mountain, where the cables to pull and push the carts were. It is quite steep, but doable even with a 4 year old kid ?. To make things smoother, weather was nice, not too cold and not warm at all. We returned from the track instead of the way in. Drank water directly from the waterfall without any problem after. We did the short version and will come back to do the long haul. Worth every step of it!
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mei kingi on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Absolutely love these trails especially Butlers incline. Never climbed May Queen incline though.
Never thought I'd be fit enough to accomplish any such trails due to my failing Hakarimata's miserably and traumatizing myself over stairs for a good while but this was perfect for me (light to med fitness level). Accomplished all trails except above Quartzeville.
These trails I find easier on my ankles and achilles and I love the entire terrain. The scenery is epic and the history of the area is just awesome. Very friendly local folk walking the trail. Love it
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Hewey on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is such an amazing place to visit. A fantastic walk BUT a very steep climb up to the summit. We'll worth the challenge. Highly recommend this walk.
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Stephen French on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Te Aroha is the town of Love..The mountain is popular for hiking people who want to do the hard climbs..however 3km from Te Aroha township is Wairongomai Valley. It's my favorite place for easy going bush walking, and has a stream nearby at the carpark to cool off in summer.. There are incredible views from the carpark across the farmlands, and the weekends are busy here for family walking together or hiking groups come here. As a leader, I bring people here, because of the old gold mining history and ecology of the area..the tracks are well designed and signposted for all to enjoy, and a large map on the day as at the carpark can be photographed for ease of exploring along the tracks. Some loops are roughly 4 hours or less if you're interested in visiting Wairongomai Valley. I highly recommend walking up Butler's Incline which is about an hour away from the carpark. Butler's is an old relic from the goldmine days, where they brought down the big rocks from the mountains using a Railway track, and now it's used as an invigorating walk from the bottom to the top..climbing about 400m in around 30 minutes.. The views are awesome at the top, and you can return to carpark via the High Level Track which is fairly easy..
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Mike Currie on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great place for a day walk. Lots to explore. Lots of history here and in beautiful bush. Take warm clothes and a rain jacket as it is in the shade and it takes time to get out once you are in. It is useful to take a touch for explanation too.
There are a good combination of tracks from easy to steep all with very informative reading boards along the way so worth a read to understand the history.
Most tracks have signs, and time directions. Shorter tracks are 30 minutes one way, longer tracks 2.5 hours and you are climbing up slow angles so worth taking food and drinks on these longer ones.
Cell phone coverage is in and out and you are in mature bush where the weather can change with no notice so worth taking the time to be prepared.
The tracks are in reasonable condition. There is a rock climbing face if you are into carrying some base climbing gear too.
The mine shafts are wet floor with roof falls in reasonable condition.
There is good parking. But seems to be local cars coming into see what cars are parked there as our surveillance picked up the same cars coming looking around and leaving. So I wouldn't leave possessions in your vehicle.
However well worth exploring.
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Michelle Strydom on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Must do of you're in the area. All the walks are well signposted and indicate times too.
Walks range from 30min to 4hrs+. Lots of locals so be sure to get there early as the carpark can fill up quite quickly and are small.
There's heaps of information boards all around to read up on and understand what's happened in the 1880's onwards when the mine was in operation.
Would recommend doing the shorter walks with kids up to the butler incline, its quite steep.
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