Best Mountain Bike Trails in Hunua Trails
Hunua Trails offers a stunning network of purpose-built singletrack trails through native bush in the Hunua Ranges Regional Park, just 40 minutes from Auckland. The park features diverse terrain including the Valley Loop Track, River-Farm Track, and a skills area, showcasing regenerating native forest with kauri, rimu, and matai. This destination is protected from kauri dieback disease, and riders must use the bike cleaning station at Mangatawhiri Dam carpark to help preserve the forest's ecological integrity.
Trails
Showing 1 - 10 of 20 trails
Easy
529.6m
6m
-9m
7h 18m
Easy ride from the car park to A R A drive via the campground and skill park, avoids riding on the road.
Intermediate
1.4m
35m
-121m
4h 6m
Quick gravel based singletrack decent, starting and finishing off A R A Drive.
Very difficult
4.3m
284m
-255m
88h 3m
This is the first MTB track that was opened in the area. It’s a toughie and we know it has scared off a few beginners from the area – come back and ride the LOWER MANGATAWHIRI LOOP The Challenge Trail follows a ridge above the dam and therefore traverses some pretty steep up and downs. Only try this one in the dry! It’s hard enough walking up those slopes in the wet let alone riding!Anyway, it’s a good challenge for a fit rider and rewards you with some stunning views – you can look north and see the Sky Tower as a tiny little stick in the distance. There are also views down either side to the Mangatawhiri and Wairoa Dams. The story goes that someone has managed to ride this one with only 2 feet-downs. I can remember my best being 14!From the campground, ride up towards and past the dam. Follow the signs taking you on a 4km gravel road climb alongside the Reservoir – good speedy in/out up/down until the climb proper starts. At the top the signs turn you back onto the main ridge and the tough single track begins. The route then comes out onto Moumoukai Road, where you drove in. Don’t forget to take the great 7 minute single track downhill on the left of the road halfway down. There had been plans to make this downhill from the very top, but a recent subsidence has curtailed this for now.
Intermediate
664.2m
21m
-20m
5h 4m
Intermediate
547.8m
26m
-27m
3h 9m
Intermediate
456m
-3m
47 min
Short trail detouring off the main line to take a more technical rooty alternative line.
Intermediate
475.4m
11m
-39m
1h 54m
Built by the Freaky Styley Fat Tyre Boyz in the early 2000's this trail continues the tight singletrack style of the Hunua MTB trails. This is one of the more consistently downhill trails in the Moumoukai Valley network.
Intermediate
752m
30m
-34m
4h 50m
Trail starts up a short steep gravel road climb from the Lower Mangatawhiri Campground and is on the left opposite the bottom of trail Freaky Styley DH
Intermediate
326m
3m
-2m
1h 4m