Pureora Forest through road, help required

**MXNUT** · 7th March 2009, 17:54

Right guys n gals, some help is needed here i as am trying to find the road that runs through the middle of the Pureora forest, but cant locate it on any maps i have or on google. I know that some of the riders on here have travelled this route.

Where does it start and end

**tri boy** · 7th March 2009, 18:04

Go out past Bennydale on hwy30, and past Tiroa.
Turn into the Pureora HQ on Maraeroa Rd.
They will direct you onto "Link Rd". It can get a bit confusing, as there are tracks crossing and close by, but if you stay on the main track you should be right.
It brings you out onto Kakaho Rd, then hwy 32 just nth of Whangamata Rd, which leads you into Taupo.

**buggsubique** · 7th March 2009, 20:20

f*ckin spooky place that part of the country! Last time I did it was on a mtb, but yeah, spooky.

**Crisis management** · 8th March 2009, 08:23

Wot Tri-boy said, stop at the forest HQ and there is a sign / map of the route through, it's really easy to follow and there is only one turning that has the potential to get you lost.
I was surprised to see how easy it was, I had been expecting some sort of hard core track but it's a straightforward logging road.

Neat ride tho and some great outlooks.

**tri boy** · 8th March 2009, 08:31

Originally Posted by buggsubique

f*ckin spooky place that part of the country! Last time I did it was on a mtb, but yeah, spooky.

That be the ghost of lost scramblers wandering aimlessly through the trees, that put a shiver up your spine.

**CrazyFrog** · 8th March 2009, 09:03

There's also a great forestry link road in Pureora, secret squirrel stuff, which takes you thru to Waimiha, onto Ongarue Stream Rd to be exact. I've been thru a few years ago, I know the cocky at the end of the road who gave me a key for the locked forestry gate. We had our family farm back there until the mid 80's.
Waimiha is a great area for MX and enduro rides held a couple of times a year, mostly around the PiroPiro Flats camping area. Gives you another option for exiting, head back thru Ongarue towards Taumarunui.

**bigfish** · 8th March 2009, 19:08

Most sports shops,tramping shops have DOC brochure Pueora Forest Park $1.00 which most thru roads. Cheers.

**Dingledoo** · 6th November 2010, 12:48

I have been browsing through a 4WD track guidebook which shows the 'Ketemaringi Track' in the Pureora Forest.

It starts from the end Kokomiko Road (off the Ongarue Stream Road) and finishes on the Okauaka Road.

The guide describes it as 'Grade 2 - Easy off-road, some mud, possible scratching, all terrain tyres, intermediate drivers'

We're planning to go next weekend and have a look at it. Has anyone done this recently and knows what it's like?

**tri boy** · 7th November 2010, 17:16

Came over the link road today with kanny and Phil/Dawn. All good. Bit of tree felling closer to the HQ but road is fine.
The views at the 1/2 way point was freeking awsome.

**That looks like fun** · 7th November 2010, 17:53

Did you take the side excursion down to the centre of the North Island? Its only a few Ks

and worth it just for a been there done that moment

**Phreaky Phil** · 7th November 2010, 18:32

Yea, took Kanny down for a look as she had never been before

**Phreaky Phil** · 7th November 2010, 18:47

Dawn and Kanny at the "Centre"

**duckonin** · 7th November 2010, 19:06

Originally Posted by CrazyFrog

There's also a great forestry link road in Pureora, secret squirrel stuff, which takes you thru to Waimiha, onto Ongarue Stream Rd to be exact. I've been thru a few years ago, I know the cocky at the end of the road who gave me a key for the locked forestry gate. We had our family farm back there until the mid 80's.
Waimiha is a great area for MX and enduro rides held a couple of times a year, mostly around the PiroPiro Flats camping area. Gives you another option for exiting, head back thru Ongarue towards Taumarunui.

Who is at the end of the road now it used to be John and Jane Mason ?

**young1** · 7th November 2010, 19:15

Mark have a chat to Triboy he seems to know where he is going in there. This is us in 2008 on way to Clint's mmmmm ride. (Although I seem to remember we had a few issues finding Pureora that time Brent lol). Some awesome views in there.