Great guided walks this weekend

Great guided walks this weekend

11 March 2010

Make sure you book a place on a Greater Wellington guided walk this weekend (20-21 March), taking you deep into the valleys and high on the hilltops of our regional parks and forests.

“The walks are a great introduction to parks for those who haven’t visited before – they are led by experts who know the area well and will share their knowledge and enthusiasm for these special places. The walks are also a fun way to rediscover these areas, if you’ve visited before,” says Greater Wellington’s Parks Marketing and Design Manager Amanda Cox.

Ridge Track Adventure
Kaitoke Region Park
Saturday 20 March, 10am-3pm
Cost: $7 per person (includes bus ride from Kaitoke Regional Park to the start of the Ridge Track at Te Marua)
Booking essential: 04 801 1041, bookings@gw.govt.nz
Moderate fitness required.
There’s an incredible variety of landscapes on this 9km guided walk. Participants will see regenerating and indigenous forest with panoramic views of the Hutt Valley and Tararuas, ending up in Kaitoke Regional Park’s Rivendell.

Rimutaka Rail Trail
Pakuratahi Forest
Saturday 20 March, 9am-5.30pm
Cost: Adults $27, under 14s $12. Price includes bus, lunchtime sausage sizzle, afternoon tea and museum entry.
Booking essential: 04 801 1041, bookings@gw.govt.nz
Moderate fitness required
Join Greater Wellington guides and the Fell Engine Society’s Graeme Jupp for a 17km (but easy!) walk along the Rimutaka Rail, exploring our unique railway history. Take afternoon tea at Featherston’s Fell Museum, where you can see the trains that used the rail, then bus back to Upper Hutt.

Farm to Coast
Battle Hill Farm Forest Park to Queen Elizabeth Park
Sunday 21 March, 7.45am-5pm
Cost: $12 per person
Booking essential: 04 801 1041, bookings@gw.govt.nz
For the fit only!
Join Greater Wellington and Parawai Tramping Club at Queen Elizabeth Park before bussing to Battle Hill. We head up through pine forest to the native bush of Mt Wainui before dropping into Whareroa Farm and back to Queen Elizabeth Park. The views are spectacular – on a clear day you can see the whole spread of the Kapiti Coast and even Mt Taranaki and Mt Ruapehu.

These walks are part of Greater Wellington’s Great Outdoors summer events programme. Find out more at www.gw.govt.nz/events

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