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NZ Walking Routes > Nelson > Motueka > Wangapeka Track
Wangapeka Track
- Location
From Tapawera, 62 km from Nelson, follow the sign posts west to the Wangapeka Valley. After crossing the Dart River ford or footbridge, continue 7 km up the valley to Prices Clearing. Here there is an information kiosk with public telephone (free dialling to Nelson) and intentions book. The track starts a further 1 km on.
From the West Coast road, turn off at Little Wanganui, 80 km north of Westport, 18 km south of Karamea, and drive inland for 5 km on Wangapeka Road to the carpark where the track starts.
- Description
The Wangapeka Track traverses 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. Reasonable fitness is required and boots are recommended.
Visit www.doc.govt.nz for full details of this tramp.
- Level
- Hard
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Camping
- Carpark
- Historical
- Huts
- Lookouts
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Tramping
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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