Starting your walk from the Northen End and finishing at the Southern End?

Leave your vehicle at Onepoto and catch our water taxi to Whananui to start your hike.

Departs Onepoto at 9:30am/1pm/2pm/3pm → Arriving to Whananui at 10am/1:30pm/2:30pm/3:30pm.

Parking your vehicle at Onepoto?

Parking at Onepoto is generally quite safe - you may have heard of vandalism/theft in the past, however the there have not been any reports of such in recent years. The majority of people would leave their vehicles at Onepoto with no issues. Call the Te Urewera Visitor Centre on 06 837 3900 if you have any concerns.

If your planning to do the walk starting from the Northen end (Whananui), and finishing in the Southern end (Onepoto) you would book this run from Onepoto to Whananui on your first day.

Onepoto

Turn right out of the driveway from the Holiday Park/Visitors Centre onto the main road. After a 15min drive you will come to the “Onepoto Road” sign, follow the road for 300 metres and you will see the start of the walk on your right. The carpark area is just next to the shelter, and you will see a road heading straight down to the boat ramp. There is a water taxi sign at the beginning of this road, and another down at the boat ramp. The boat ramp is the water taxi pick up/drop off spot.

Whananui

We can not get our boat into Hopuruahine Landing due to low water levels. The closest point we do is Whananui, which just means you miss out on 1.5 hours/5kms of the walk. Whananui is about a 2.5 hour walk to Waiharuru.

Please note:

If there is no availability for the time you are after - send us an email on waiwaixpres@gmail.com and we will see what we can do!