MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
An easy 15 minutes 460 metre loop walk.
Map Data: Google, Digital Globe, Department of Conservation (DOC).
below to explore this walk.
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
An easy 15 minute loop track, beginning just north of DOC's (unmanned) Makarora Visitor Centre.
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
The track climbs passes through Silver Beech forest with large Matai, Miro, Kahikatea and Rimu trees.
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
Many of the smaller trees seem to be choked with the hanging lichen, Old Man's Beard.
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
At this point the track forks and we go right. The track to the left leads to Mount Shrimpton (5 hours to the bushline and return).
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
Old Man's Beard is attractive but it's a pest species.
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
This old Pitsaw site is interesting. What a hideous job for the guy down in the hole (known as the "Underdog"). Hard sweaty work in a dusty hole, sawing logs into planks and fighting off the sandflies and mosquitoes...
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
MAKARORA BUSH NATURE WALK - Mount Aspiring National Park
And here we are back at the road to the carpark, which we can see in the distance in the photo above.