MOKOPUNA
GRADE: 1 LENGTH: 2.9KM
BUILT: 2015
GETTING THERE:
From Rifle Range “Road” (a fire break road through a gate off the left of Long Mile Road on the way to the Visitor Information Centre). Or from two points on Tarawera Road: Opposite Selwyn Road, and at the intersection of Tarawera and Long Mile Roads.
TRAIL DESCRIPTION:
Smooth and easy hard-packed gravel surface, suited as an introduction to off road cycling, passing through beautiful mature Douglas Fir, Larch and Redwood forest with an understory of punga tree ferns. As a shared use and two-way track it is ideally suited to young riders as well as family groups which may include walkers and strollers.
GETTING OUT: Various exit points, or can be ridden as an out-and-back, or as a complete loop.
Grade 1 & 2 Trails close to Waipa / Rotorua city
KIDS LOOP / BALL & CHAIN / PUARENGA / MOKOPUNA / TAHI / CREEK TRACK / THE DIPPER / HEMO GORGE TRAIL / LION TRAIL / THE WASH / VERRY SAFE TRAIL / CHESTNUT LINK / SWEET & SOUR / YELLOW BRICK ROAD