Mountain Bike Trails in Hunua Trails

Barnyard Boogie

Flowy with a few tight corners towards the end.

Carpark to A R A Drive

Easy ride from the car park to A R A drive via the campground and skill park, avoids riding on the road.

Challenge DH

Quick gravel based singletrack decent, starting and finishing off A R A Drive.

Challenge Track

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.

DC3

Devolution

Doova

Short trail detouring off the main line to take a more technical rooty alternative line.

Freaky Styley DH

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.

Fred Flintstone

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.

Girl Power

Grammar Gauntlet

One of the newer trails in the park, fast, flowy, tuck your elbows in for a few of the tree's.

Kauri

Short straight trail through the trees.

Luna

Pig's Route

Short detour off to the left of Moumoukai Valley Road to get off the gravel and onto some single track. Narrow trail winding through the scrub.

Pipeline

Tight trail, w. Stream crossing and a grunty climb in the middle.

Rise 'n Shine

River Track

This track cuts out 2km of road and replaces with sweet single-track through regenerating bush. Some of the track is open and flowing while other sections are tight and steep.there is a river crossing nearly at the end.

Rocky's Roots

Twisting descent and then climb through a nicely forested section with plenty of tree roots.

Washout

Short track crossing the creek where the old road was washed away. A quick rutted turning descent to the creek followed by a climb up the heavily eroded bank on the other side.

Water Wheel

Rooty, rocky, rutted descent to a shallow river ford followed by a climb back out.