Track Details:Karapoti-Toi Toi Road
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Karapoti-Toi Toi Road
Distance: 41 km return.
Ride 8 km up Karapoti Gorge past McGhies Bridge to the clearing. Cross the Akatarawa River West, climb over the Pram Track (530 m) and down to Dopers Creek. Turn left and climb steadily up Rimu Road. At Toi Toi Road turn right down Hydro Road to Orange Hut. From Orange Hut the return route is downstream to Dopers Creek and back over the Pram Track to Karapoti.
Trail biking
Today there is an extensive network of roads and old logging tracks through the regenerating bush and pine trees of the Akatarawa Forest. The main four wheel drive roads through the forests are open to the public for quad and trail biking, and there is a trail bike zone through the forest. Trail bikes are not allowed elsewhere in the forest or in the other regional parks.
All casual trail bikers must have individual permits. Greater Wellington issues these permits at no charge. Contact the Upper Hutt office for your permit.
There is a 30km per hour speed limit in the forest. Casual two- and four-wheel drive off-road racing, scrambling, motocross, and competitive riding or driving is not permitted.
Sensitive ecological zones
Trail biking is not permitted in ecologically sensitive zones such as:
* the summits of Mounts Barton, Maunganui, Titi and Wainui
*
the upper Akatarawa Valley
*
riparian zones (rivers and stream margins), stream beds, swamps and wetlands.
Greater Wellington and the Akatarawa Recreation Access Committee (ARAC) have agreed guidelines for motorised recreation in the forest to help protect the environment, other recreational users and adjoining landowners. Your co-operation with this code will impact directly on the future access of motorised recreational users to this area – please respect it.
Distance: 41 km return.
Ride 8 km up Karapoti Gorge past McGhies Bridge to the clearing. Cross the Akatarawa River West, climb over the Pram Track (530 m) and down to Dopers Creek. Turn left and climb steadily up Rimu Road. At Toi Toi Road turn right down Hydro Road to Orange Hut. From Orange Hut the return route is downstream to Dopers Creek and back over the Pram Track to Karapoti.
Trail biking
Today there is an extensive network of roads and old logging tracks through the regenerating bush and pine trees of the Akatarawa Forest. The main four wheel drive roads through the forests are open to the public for quad and trail biking, and there is a trail bike zone through the forest. Trail bikes are not allowed elsewhere in the forest or in the other regional parks.
All casual trail bikers must have individual permits. Greater Wellington issues these permits at no charge. Contact the Upper Hutt office for your permit.
There is a 30km per hour speed limit in the forest. Casual two- and four-wheel drive off-road racing, scrambling, motocross, and competitive riding or driving is not permitted.
Sensitive ecological zones
Trail biking is not permitted in ecologically sensitive zones such as:
* the summits of Mounts Barton, Maunganui, Titi and Wainui
*
the upper Akatarawa Valley
*
riparian zones (rivers and stream margins), stream beds, swamps and wetlands.
Greater Wellington and the Akatarawa Recreation Access Committee (ARAC) have agreed guidelines for motorised recreation in the forest to help protect the environment, other recreational users and adjoining landowners. Your co-operation with this code will impact directly on the future access of motorised recreational users to this area – please respect it.
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