Pureora Forest Park

594 Trails 534 POIs 11 Peaks 5 Campsites 1 Picnic Site 2 Viewpoints
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Description

Pureora Forest Park is a 760-square-kilometre (290 sq mi) protected area in the North Island of New Zealand. Within its rich rain forest are an abundance of 1,000-year-old podocarp trees. It is "recognised as one of the finest rain forests in the world". Established in 1978, after a series of protests and tree sittings, the park is one of the largest intact tracts of native forest in the North Island and has high conservation value due to the variety of plant life and animal habitats available. New Zealand's largest totara tree is located nearby on private land. Camping, picnicking, swimming, and mountain biking (e.g. the Timber Trail opened in 2013) are popular within the park's confines. And the Pureora Forest Park Hunting Competition has brought hunters to the area since 1987. There are many areas in the park that are interesting to both tourists and scientists. The Forest Tower is a 12-metre-tall tower located about ten minutes by foot from the Bismarck Road car park. Popular with ornithologists, birds such as kuku, kakariki, and kaka are evident in the area. The 1978 Treetop Protest Site is still accessible today and includes platforms high in the trees. A 1940s steam hauler, used to transport logs through the forest for milling, and a 2-tonne Caterpillar tractor are still present in the reserve, the latter was used in the 1950s to harvest many totara for posts.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Amos Road
  • Aotearoa Road
  • Atkinson Road
  • Bayley Road
  • Beards Road
  • Blackfern Track
  • Bog Inn Track
  • Centre of the North Island
  • Dillon Road
  • Duncan Road
  • Eastward Road
  • Great Lake Trail
  • Grice Road
  • Harvey Road
  • Hingaia Road
  • Hoddle Road
  • Huirimu Road
  • Jones Road
  • Kahorekau Road
  • Ketemaringi Track
  • Kokomiko Road
  • Lake Road
  • Loop Road
  • Maihiihi Road
  • Mangakahu Road
  • Mangatukutuku bridge
  • Mangatutu Road
  • Mangawhio Road
  • Mclean Road
  • Millard Road
  • Monarch Road
  • Ngapuke Road
  • Ngaroma Road
  • Okauaka Road
  • Ongarue Stream Road
  • Oruaiwi Road
  • Otataka Road
  • Otewa Road
  • Paewhenua Road
  • Ranginui Road
  • River Trail
  • Ropiha Road
  • Stewart Road
  • Tahae Road
  • Taringamotu Road
  • Taupaki Road
  • Tauraroa Valley Road
  • Te Araroa - North Island
  • The Timber Trail
  • Timber Trail
  • Timber Trail Connection Waikato River TA
  • Tolley Road
  • Waihora Lagoon Track
  • Waihora Track
  • Waikato River Trail
  • Waikato River Trail TA section
  • Waikato River Trails
  • Waikoura bridge
  • Waimahora Road
  • Waione Road
  • Waipari Road
  • Wairehi Road
  • Waituhi Road
  • Wall Road
  • Wharepuhunga Road
  • Whatauri Road
  • Wynyards Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Access to Waipapa Dam climbing crag
  • Bog Inn Hut
  • Caterpillar tractor
  • DOC Campsite
  • DoC
  • Falls camp (historic)
  • Forest Tower
  • Great Lake Trail
  • Harrisons Creek shelter
  • Hauhungaroa
  • Hauhungaroa Hut
  • Kawauariki Falls
  • Lakeside Village Inn
  • Mangakino
  • Mangakino Community Pool
  • Mangakino Four Square
  • Mangakino Hotel
  • Mangakino Rowing Camp
  • Mangatukutuku bridge
  • Mangatutu
  • Maniatangaroa Falls
  • Maramataha Gorge swing bridge
  • Motere
  • Mystery Creek shelter
  • Ngaherenga Campsite
  • Ngaroma
  • No 10 camp (historic)
  • No 10 camp shelter
  • No 11 Camp
  • Ongarue Spiral
  • Owen Falls
  • Paewhenua
  • Pakihi
  • Pamotumoto
  • Piropiro Campsite
  • Pureora
  • Rangitoto
  • Skid platform
  • Te Ranga
  • The Dam Cafe
  • Tihoi
  • Tihoi Trading Post
  • Timber Trail
  • Timber Trail Shelter
  • Titeraupenga
  • Toilet open only during sports events
  • Tom & Shorty
  • Tuhingamata
  • Waihaha Hut
  • Waikoura bridge
  • Waimahora
  • Waione siding
  • Waipapa Dam climbing crag
  • Waituhi Lookout
  • Waituhi Saddle
  • Wereroa
  • Whakamaru Store
  • Wharepuhunga
  • Wilton Falls

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA (SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (Aerial imagery) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This work is based on/includes LINZ's data (NZ Topo 50) which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ https://www.linz.govt.nz/) for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Thomas Camp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Te_Pureora_forest_1.jpg CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).