My Favourite Walk
A walk around Mangatawhiri Reservoir By Mike Giri
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angatawhiri Reservoir is located in the South East of Hunua Range Regional Park, south of Auckland. There is a loop track around the reservoir. My son Sudeep and I decided to complete the walk on the loop track of Mangatawhiri Reservoir. Above The reservoir showing low water level as an effect of last summer’s drought
We chose to do it in Spring last year. All we wanted was no rain, but the weather turned out to be better than expected. With our preparation to walk for a good part of the day, we set out at about 10 am after breakfast. We took State Highway one from Penrose and exited at Ramarama to continue on Ararimu Road. After about 10 minutes of driving, we turned to Golling Road, and turned right again to Hunua Road, and left to Moumoukai Road, where
we crossed Auckland/Waikato border. After some time following the direction, we arrived at the Upper Mangatawhiri Dam Car park and Campground. It is a beautiful area with water and toilet facilities with green hillrange on the north-east side. There is adequate car parking for the day visitors, the trampers and campers. There is also an information board,
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26 Walking New Zealand, issue no 278 - 2021
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