Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Wellington > Lower Hutt > Wainuiomata > Big Bend Track
Big Bend Track
- Location
- Take the Coast Road to Catchpool Valley, 12 km south of Wainuiomata in the Hutt Valley to access Big Bend Track from the Orongorongo Track. Or you can access the track from the Whakanui Track which begins at Hine Road in Wainuiomata.
- Description
The Big Bend Track follows along the true right of the Orongorongo River and links with the Orongorongo and Whakanui Tracks.
Beech forest dominates much of the range, joined by podocarps at lower altitudes, and kamahi, a predominant canopy tree (with emergent trees like rimu, rata, miro, hinau, rewarewa and maire in some areas). The south end of the range, where most of the original forest has been destroyed by fire, is covered at lower altitudes by shrub woods like manuka, tauhini, rangiora and heketara with some emergent hinau and rewarewa.
The Rimutaka Forest Park Trust began releasing North Island brown kiwi into the park in May 2006. It was the first ever kiwi translocation planned and executed entirely by an independent trust.
- Duration
- 3.0 hours
- Level
- Hard
- Amenities
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- BBQs
- Birds
- Camping
- Dogs Allowed
- Historical
- Huts
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Toilets
- Tramping
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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