Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Manawatu > Western Ruahine - Kelly Knight Hut Track
Western Ruahine - Kelly Knight Hut Track
- Location
- Heading just north from Mangaweka turn right off SH1, cross the Rangitikei River and follow Kawhatau Valley Road. This eventually leads to Upper Kawhatau Valley Road and not far past this turn right onto Mangakukeke Road. Follow this and just before the Purity Track car park at the end turn right into Kohunui Station. Follow the farm road until you reach the parking sign and track start. Allow an extra hour if you are leaving your car in the Purity car park and walking the farm road.
- Description
Time: 2 hr 30 min – 3 hr 30 min
You must get permission from the landowner to cross Kohunui Station.
From the parking spot follow the markers across farmland for about 30 min to the Ruahine Forest Park boundary. From here the track sidles above the Pourangaki River dropping in and out of sidecreeks. At times the track is narrow with steep drops to the river. Nearer to the hut a track off to the left heads up to the Hikurangi Range with options of heading to Purity or Waterfall Huts. A short distance further on a swingbridge (difficult for small children) crosses the Pourangaki River and Kelly Knight Hut is reached.
- Level
- Hard
- Amenities
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- Carpark
- Huts
- Tramping
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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