Immediately across SH1 from the Tearooms is Kraack Rd. Follow this road up to a forestry gate. Pass the gate, head along a SW forestry road. Take a left down another track heading southwards to an old logging landing with its remnants of waste logs. Cross westwards into DoC’s Smyth Reserve (native bush). Follow the track through to Smyth Rd.
 
Follow Smyth Rd south, turn right into Kaipara Flats Rd, then left into Streamlands/Swamp Rds. Turn right into Old Kaipara Rd and walk 900m to a stile on the boundary of Drinnan’s farm (on the left). Follow orange markers up the boundary of the farm paddocks into Edgerley Rd. Turn right (SW) into Woodcocks Rd then take a left into Mathew Rd. This is the start of a forestry road route up to the summit of Moirs Hill.

Just east of the Moirs Hill summit, there is a Te Araroa-signed, very rough 4WD track (Barkers Rd) that heads south down to Ahuroa Rd. (Note: stay on the clay/grass track. The gravel one you glimpse occasionally is a neighbouring forestry road. There are very few markers as there is just pine and gorse for much of the way).