Helicopter Hill, Craigieburn Forest Park

October 2024

Read more from

October 2024

Above the bushline on the final climb to Helicopter Hill. Photo: Verity Jackson
This family-friendly, dual-use track has panoramic views from the top. By Verity Jackson On the Broken River skifield, take the well-graded Mistletoe Track, which begins by crossing Cave Stream before heading north-west over a grassy terrace and through regenerating mountain beech. The dual-use, dog-friendly track sidles northwards at a steady gradient and reaches Lyndon Saddle […]

About the author

Ruth Soukoutou

More From Trips

Related Topics

Similar Articles

Milford Track books out in minutes as thousands queue

Two Tongariro huts added to DOC booking system

Tongariro Northern Circuit huts no longer first-in, first-served during winter

Lagoon Saddle huts, Craigieburn Forest Park

Longslip Mountain, Lindis Conservation Area

Otamatapaio Hut, Oteake Conservation Park

Trending Now

The 2026 Wilderness Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition

A tale of adventure and tragedy

Mt Peel, Kahurangi National Park

The trail of the tenacious

A lofty location for Brass Monkey

Subscribe!
Each issue of Wilderness celebrates Aotearoa’s great outdoors — written and photographed with care, not algorithms.Subscribe and help keep our wild stories alive.

Join Wilderness. You'll see more, do more and live more.

Already a subscriber?  to keep reading. Or…

34 years of inspiring New Zealanders to explore the outdoors. Don’t miss out — subscribe today.

Your subscriber-only benefits:

All this for as little as $6.75/month.

1

free articles left this month.

Already a subscriber? Login Now