Best Mountain Bike Trails in Pureora Forest Park
Pureora Forest Park is home to The Timber Trail, an 82km Grade 3 intermediate backcountry experience following historic logging roads and featuring some of New Zealand's longest suspension bridges. The park preserves the last remnants of native podocarp forest with abundant birdlife and includes the Okahukura Loop trail.
Trails
Showing 1 - 2 of 2 trails
Easy
7.2m
1151m
Advanced
1.8m
236m
Starting on The Timber Trail from the Tui Road carpark, this alternative route to the summit of Mount Pureora heads up the northwest side of the mountain. It's 1.8 km from the junction with The Timber Trail.Lowland podocarp trees of totara, rimu and kahikatea give way to broadleaf dominated forest with conifers such as Hall's totara, culminating in open views of Lake Taupo, Mount Taranaki and the Manaku ranges at the summit.