(North to South)
Tide information: Check the best times for walking on www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/tides
From the DOC carpark, follow the no-exit Bream Tail Road (like a private driveway) as it climbs up hill through farmland offering spectacular views of the coast. Please leave farm gates as you find them. Use stiles where provided.
After 1.8km, you leave the road & follow markers across pasture to reach another tarmac driveway (part of a subdivision). Turn right for a few metres then it’s back into pasture and down a SE spur, across a marshy area at the bottom, then straight up by the bushline and over a steep hill.
Follow the well-benched track that then zigs NE down into a bush gully (kauri galore) then zags up the other side to come out at another section of tarmac driveway. Just over the bank on the other side of it is DOC’s Mangawhai Walkway. Turn right/south and follow the track along the cliffs and down to the beach. Continue along the beach to the carpark at Mangawhai Heads.
- Vehicles on road or track
- Poisons & traps
- Farming operations
- Tides, waves & rivers - safer at low tide
- Track exposed to sun, wind or cold
- Few water sources
(North to South)
Tide information: Check the best times for walking on www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/tides
From the DOC carpark, follow the no-exit Bream Tail Road (like a private driveway) as it climbs up hill through farmland offering spectacular views of the coast. Please leave farm gates as you find them. Use stiles where provided.
After 1.8km, you leave the road & follow markers across pasture to reach another tarmac driveway (part of a subdivision). Turn right for a few metres then it’s back into pasture and down a SE spur, across a marshy area at the bottom, then straight up by the bushline and over a steep hill.
Follow the well-benched track that then zigs NE down into a bush gully (kauri galore) then zags up the other side to come out at another section of tarmac driveway. Just over the bank on the other side of it is DOC’s Mangawhai Walkway. Turn right/south and follow the track along the cliffs and down to the beach. Continue along the beach to the carpark at Mangawhai Heads.
Mangawhai Heads
Mangawhai Volunteer Tourist Information Centre - Molesworth Drive, Mangawhai Heads - P: 09 431 5090 -
Mangawhai Backpackers - Coastal Cow, is at 299 Molesworth Dr, Mangawhai Heads - P: 09 431 5246
- Keep to the track
- Respect private land
- Leave gates as you find them
- No litter
- No dogs
- No horses
- No firearms
- No vehicles
- No bikes
- No taking plants
- No camping
- No fires
- Take all rubbish with you
- Wildlife Sanctuary - Avoid dune nesting sites; no dogs allowed
(Start)
- Car park
(End)
- Full range of amenities in Mangawhai
- Carpark
- Picnic area
- Toilets
- Accommodation Nearby motel & camping ground
