Ruahine Forest Park

192 Trails 903 POIs 24 Peaks 9 Campsites 1 Picnic Site 1 Viewpoint
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Description

The Ruahine Range is the largest of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand that form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington. The ridge is at its most pronounced from the central North Island down to Wellington, where it comprises the Ruahine, Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges. The Ruahines run northeast-southwest for 110 kilometres from inland Hawke's Bay to near Woodville. It is separated in the south from the northern end of the Tararua Range by the Manawatu Gorge. The highest point in the Ruahines is Mangaweka, situated along the Hikurangi Range, which at 1733 metres (5686 feet) is the second highest non-volcanic mountainous peak in the North Island after Mt Hikurangi (1754 metres/5755 feet) in the Raukumara Range. The other notable peak is Wharite (920 metres/3017 feet), which visually marks the southern end-point of the Ruahine Range. The dominant geographical landmark in the Manawatu and Tararua District, Wharite is perhaps better known in the region for its highly visible television transmission tower, which for a number of decades has rebroadcast national television services to the region.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Apiti Tk - Ngamoko Roadend To Te Pohatu
  • Apiti Tk - Southern Branch
  • Aranga Hut To Pk 1396 Route
  • Aranga Hut To Pohatuhaha Tk
  • Awahou South Road
  • Barlow Hut To Te Atu Mahuru Tk
  • Barlow Track
  • Beehive Creek Walkway
  • Big Hill Roadend/golden Crown Ridge Junc
  • Carpark To Kelly Knight Hut
  • Cattle Creek Hut Turnoff To Birch Whare
  • Colenso Spur Tk
  • Comet Roadend To Taruarau River
  • Crow Hut To Mckinnon Tk
  • Crow Hut To Rongotea Tk
  • Daphne Crprk To Daphne Hut Tk
  • Daphne Hut To Main Range Tk
  • Daphne Ridge Tk
  • Daphne Spur - Daphne Hut - Howletts Hut
  • Deadmans To Mangahuia Tk
  • Fern Walk
  • Gold Creek Ridge Tk
  • Golden Crown Ridge Junctn North To Bush
  • Golden Crown/aranga Hut Tk
  • Heritage Lodge To Iron Gate Hut Tk
  • Heritage Lodge To Tunupo Tk
  • Herricks Hut - Big Hill Stm Tk
  • Hinerua Hut To Smiths Stm Tk
  • Hinerua Ridge Tk
  • Hinerua Ridge To Tukituki River
  • Homes Ridge Tk
  • Ikawatea Forks Hut To Ikawatea Trig Rout
  • Iron Bark Hut To Lake Colenso Hut Tk
  • Iron Bark Hut To Maori Clearing Via Maro
  • Iron Bark To Waiokotore Biv Via Ohutu Ri
  • Iron Gate Hut To Ngamoko Range Tk
  • Iron Gate Hut To Upper Oroua River (gorg
  • Kaka Street
  • Kashmir Road To Longview Hut
  • Kawhatau Base To Colenso High Point Tk
  • Kawhatau Base To Kawhatau River (old Roa
  • Kawhatau Base To Mckinnon Hut Tk
  • Kelly Knight Hut To Pourangaki Hut
  • Kelly Knight Hut Track To Wooden Peg
  • Kiwi Street
  • Knights - Toka Tk
  • Kuku Road
  • Lake Colenso To Puketaramea Tk
  • Leon Kinvig Hut To Main Range Tk
  • Leon Kinvig Hut To Toka
  • Longview Hut To Otumore Route
  • Longview/makaretu Hut Tk - Longview Hut
  • Longview/makaretu Hut Tk - Northern Tk J
  • Longview/makaretu Hut Tk - Te Pohatu Rid
  • Maharahara Peak Track
  • Manawatu Cycleway
  • Mania Road To Whanahuia Range
  • Maropea Forks Hut To Ruahine Range Tk
  • Maropea Forks Hut To Wakelings Hut Tk
  • Masters Shelter -golden Crown Ridge
  • Mckinnon Hut To Kawhatau River Tk
  • Mokai Carpark To Otukota Hut
  • Moorcock Saddle To Awatere Hut
  • Nature Trail
  • Ngamoko Hut To Ngamoko Range Tk
  • No 1 Line Pohangina
  • No 2 Line
  • No 3 Line
  • No 4 Line
  • No Mans Rd To Dead Dog Hut
  • No Mans Rd-diannes Hut - Taruarau Biv Tr
  • Oroua Crpk - Heritage Lodge Tk
  • Otukota Hut To Bruce Ridge Tk
  • Otukota Hut To Puketaramea
  • Park Boundary To Diggers Hut
  • Parks Peak Hut To Upper Makarora Hut
  • Parks Peak Hut To Yeomans Tk
  • Pohangina Road
  • Potae - Mangatera River Tk
  • Potae To Main Range (Ruahine) Track
  • Pourangaki Hut To Hikurangi Range
  • Poutaki Track
  • Pukataramea To Maropea Forks Hut Tk
  • Purity Carpark To Wooden Peg Via Purity
  • Rangiwahia To Mangahuia
  • Roki Tk
  • Rosvals Track (Tukituki River To Daphne Hut)
  • Ruahine Corner To Potae Tk
  • Ruahine Hut To Shutes Hut Tk
  • Ruru Street
  • Sentry Box To Pohatu Trig Tk
  • Sentry Box Track Jct To Parks Peak Tk Jc
  • Shorts - Toka Tk
  • Shutes Hut To Taruarau Biv
  • Shutes Hut To Taruarau River Tk
  • Smith Stream Hut To Tops Tk
  • Sparrowhawk Tk
  • Stanfield Hut To Cattle Ck Hut
  • Stanfield/takapari/tamaki R Tk - Stanfie
  • Sunrise Tk
  • Sunrise Tk To Waipawa River
  • Swamp Tk
  • Takapari Road To Diggers
  • Tamaki West Roadend To A Frame Hut Tk
  • Taruarau Biv To Big Hill Rd Tk
  • Te Ekaou Hut To Forks Hut Tk
  • The Gentle Annie
  • Top Gorge Hut To Ngamoko Range Tk
  • Top Maropea Hut To Armstrong Saddle Tk
  • Triangle Hut To Mangahuia
  • Upper Makarora Hut To Totara Spur Tk
  • Waikamaka Hut To Rangi Creek Tk
  • Waikamaka Hut To Waipawa Forks Hut
  • Waiokotore Biv To Potae Track
  • Waipawa River To Smiths Stream Hut
  • Wakelings Hut To Rongotea Trig Tk
  • Weka Street
  • Whanganui Wellington Tour Aotearoa
  • Yeomans Tk

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Awatere Hut
  • Cattle Creek Hut
  • Colenso Hut
  • Coppermine Road End Parking Lot
  • Crow Hut
  • Daphne Hut
  • Diggers Hut
  • Forks Hut
  • Glow-worm caves
  • Happy Daze Hut
  • Hikurangi
  • Iron Gate Hut
  • Iron Peg
  • Kelly Knight Hut
  • Kelly Knight Hut To Pourangaki Hut
  • Kiritaki Hut
  • Kumeti campsite
  • Kylie Bivouac
  • Leon Kinvig Hut
  • Longview Hut
  • Maharahara
  • Makaretu Hut
  • Makawakawa
  • Makirikiri
  • Mangahuia
  • Mangaohane
  • Mangaweka
  • Matanginui
  • Mckinnon Hut
  • Mid Pohangina Hut
  • Moorcock Saddle
  • Ngamoko Hut
  • Ohutu
  • Oroua Crpk - Heritage Lodge Tk
  • Otumore
  • Otupae
  • Picnic table
  • Piripiri Hut
  • Piripiri campsite
  • Pohangina
  • Pohangina Saddle
  • Potae
  • Pourangaki Hut
  • Pourangaki Hut To Hikurangi Range
  • Purity Hut
  • Rangiwahia Hut
  • Rangiwhakamataku
  • Ross Peak
  • Sparrowhawk Bivouac
  • Stanfield Hut
  • Sunrise Hut
  • Takapari
  • Tarn Bivouac
  • Taruarau Bivouac
  • Te Ekaou Hut
  • Te Hekenga
  • Te Pohatau
  • Toka
  • Toka Bivouac
  • Top Gorge Hut
  • Traverse Hut
  • Triangle Hut
  • Tunupo
  • Tupari
  • Waiokotore Bivouac
  • Wharite Peak
  • Wooden Peg

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 ©Michal Klajban https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruahine_Range,_Knights-Shorts_Loop_Track_(25).JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).