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Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks

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Te Aroha West, New Zealand

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Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks Reviews | Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars (8 reviews)

Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks is located in Te Aroha West, New Zealand on Waiorongomai Road. Te Aroha Mountain Gold Mining Walking Tracks is rated 4.6 out of 5 in the category hiking area in New Zealand.

Address

Waiorongomai Road

Amenities

Good for kids

Accessibility

No wheelchair-accessible entrance

Open hours

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Stephen French

Te Aroha is the town of Love..The mountain is popular for hiking people who want to do the hard climbs..however 3km from Te Aroha township is Wairongomai Valley. It's my favorite place for easy going bush walking, and has a stream nearby at the carpark to cool off in summer.. There are incredible views from the carpark across the farmlands, and the weekends are busy here for family walking together or hiking groups come here. As a leader, I bring people here, because of the old gold mining history and ecology of the area..the tracks are well designed and signposted for all to enjoy, and a large map on the day as at the carpark can be photographed for ease of exploring along the tracks. Some loops are roughly 4 hours or less if you're interested in visiting Wairongomai Valley. I highly recommend walking up Butler's Incline which is about an hour away from the carpark. Butler's is an old relic from the goldmine days, where they brought down the big rocks from the mountains using a Railway track, and now it's used as an invigorating walk from the bottom to the top..climbing about 400m in around 30 minutes.. The views are awesome at the top, and you can return to carpark via the High Level Track which is fairly easy..

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Mauricio Kimura

One of the best trekking experience we’ve had, easy for kids and not to intense for adults. The best part was climbing over the train tracks up to the very top of the mountain, where the cables to pull and push the carts were. It is quite steep, but doable even with a 4 year old kid . To make things smoother, weather was nice, not too cold and not warm at all. We returned from the track instead of the way in. Drank water directly from the waterfall without any problem after. We did the short version and will come back to do the long haul. Worth every step of it!

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Craig Brighouse

Great walk with easy gradient and wide path but if you need a hard walk then can do the butlers incline at top which is a hard 20 min solid climb up railway. Great river for picnics.

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Sarah Hall

845 steps at a steep gradient that makes walking on your hands the only option . Great walk to the top with some stunning scenery. FyI- the long drop is pretty gross and signage along the way isn't very good so take a photo of the map in the carpark ( its helpful) we took our 7 year old and she was able to walk it with few moans and groans at the end but foraging for quartz treasures keept her going. Pack some lunch, drinkbottle and wear good supportive shoes and take a jacket as it gets a bit breezy and cold in the thicket. Stop and read the info along the way there is some interesting history in those hills.

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Flash

A fantastic variety of tracks to choose from. You can do easy and gentle slopes checking out much of the old Gold mines and workings. Plenty of old tunnels and drives scattered about. Warning, be careful of old hidden mine shafts. If you stick to the marked tracks you will be fine. There is also tough and steep tracks for this more adventurous and fitter. NOTE!! please do not take dogs into this area without a permit. Contact DOC if you are unsure of the requirements. Plenty to see and explore, enjoy.

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Johnson T

Pretty nice hike expect to step on rocks with flowing water to pass some areas. Was a bit slippery in some parts, but overall it was a nice and easy.

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Nathan Edwards

Beautiful scenery and some lovely walks, some do require a good level of fitness but well worth it

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Mumma Gin

Amazing scenery very hard climb if you do butler's incline. For the fit and agile.

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