For the first time in four years, trampers have an overnight walk option in Auckland’s Waitākere Ranges following a $2.34 million upgrade to three tracks. The Gibbons, Muir and Pararaha Valley tracks were among around 100 trails deemed off-limits when Auckland Council closed forested areas of the ranges in May 2018 to protect trees from kauri dieback […]
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