- Area
- Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park
- Distance
- 8.65km one way
- Time
- 5-7hr to Kauritatahi Hut
- Grade
- Difficult
- Accom.
- Kauritatahi Hut (basic, three bunks)
- Access
- 35km north of Tauranga, turn off SH2 into Thompsons Track Rd. Follow this to the car park, 5km from SH2
- Map
- BD36
- GPX File
- Kauritatahi Hut (gpx, yo 19 KB)
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Thompsons Track is often used by 4WDs and trail bikers so is wide and can be muddy and rutted in places. Take this track until the junction with the North-South Track.
Head south for about 1km until a marked and signposted track leaves the North-South track and leads up the eastern flanks of Ngatamahinerua (848m).
The exposure here can be unnerving. Once on the plateau, the track becomes rutted and can be water-logged. It takes about 40min of bush-bashing along the overgrown path to reach a sign pointing left to the three-bunk Kauritatahi Hut.