Waimangu Waikite Valley TE ARA AHI Th ermal Pools 30km 18km “Nowhere else in the world can you get on a pushbike and ride for 48km past four 5 geothermal attractions.” 30 Todd McClay, MP for Rotorua ROTORUA Sulphur Bay Reserve Lake Okataina

Lake Okareka Te Puia Hemo Gorge Whakarewarewa MTB Park

Tikitapu MAP LEGEND (Blue Lake) open section 5

optional route Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake) start / fi nish point

point of interest Mountain biking - Whakarewarewa Forest Tamaki © Tourism Rotorua AA Centre Maori Village is 31km from Rotorua. At Waimangu i-SITE Visitor Centre Lake Rotomahana Volcanic Valley you can relax in the café town WAIMANGU or pay to go for a walk on a number of café/restaurant walking trails through one of the world’s Okaro Road toilets youngest thermal areas. 5 Lake Okaro camping Waimangu Volcanic Valley car park to Waikite Valley Thermal WAIKITE VALLEY Waikite Valley Rainbow Mountain THERMAL POOLS Road Pools, 18km accommodation Kerosene Creek d ey Roa (Te Ranga) 1 state highway all From Waimangu Volcanic Valley, V thermal ite area continue along Waimangu Rd, past the ik 38 a Lake Okaro picnic area (camping sites W Wai-O-Tapu to Wairoa Thermal available) and onto SH 38. Take care e Wonderland crossing the highway and follow the g 5 Whirinaki Stream n off-road cycle path around Rainbow a Mountain. After passing a roadside R picnic area the trail climbs further d a oa o around the mountain and drops down to R r ia e p a cross the gravel Old Waiotapu Rd. Here o P K you can turn left to go to Te Ranga (a e T thermally heated stream locally known L a k e as Kerosene Creek) or you can carry on

O h 5 straight ahead on an off-road trail all the a

k u Waihunuhunu Stream way to Waiotapu. Parts of the trail are r to Taupo i © AA Traveller 2015 steep here and may require walking. At Waiotapu you will fi nd a hotel RIDING THE TRAIL with accommodation, petrol station and a honey factory with a café and shop. Only 2km from Waiotapu is the Rotorua to Waimangu (the village entrance is 200m off the trail for mountain biking (100m off the trail on Waiotapu Mud Pool and the Wai-O- Volcanic Valley, 30km on your left). Guided tours are regularly your left). Here you will fi nd a café and Tapu Thermal Wonderland (paid entry). held through this historical village. bike hire etc. From the mountain bike car From Waiotapu follow the Waikite From the Rotorua i-SITE, ride east on park, ride 150m towards the highway to Valley Rd for 6km to the Waikite Valley Queen St to the start of the trail at the From the turn-off to the village, continue the start of a concrete bike path, which Thermal Pools – there is camping and Princes Gate Archway a few hundred following signs south past Te Puia, the runs alongside the highway for several a café here. metres away. Follow the trail signs around New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts kilometres of smooth easy riding. the edge of Lake Rotorua for 6km to the Institute, through Hemo Gorge to the The trail then follows Waimangu Rd to Note: The best time to ride is in the historic Whakarewarewa Maori Village entrance to the Whakarewarewa Forest the Waimangu Volcanic Valley, which summer, between November and April.

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