Whangarei
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About
The round-trip walk is 16 km in length and takes between 4 hours 30 minutes to 5 hours to complete. The track crosses farmlands and dunes.
This loop track covers a range of landscapes and terrain. You first walk across paddocks for about 15 minutes. Once you step over a stile, you walk through manuka scrub and over sand dunes.
The track provides spectacular views of dunes, headlands and West Coast beaches.
To Werahi Beach
Time: 30 min one way
Distance: 2.5 km
To Twilight Beach
Time: 1 hr 15 min one way
Distance: 4 km
Twilight - Te Werahi Loop Track links up with the Twilight Beach to Te Paki Stream track heading south, the Te Werahi Beach to Twilight Beach track, and the Cape Reinga to Te Werahi Beach track, all of which form part of the Te Paki Coastal Track.
Follow State Highway 1 north. From Te Paki onwards, follow Cape Reinga Road. Cape Reinga Road gets very busy over the summer months. Drive slowly and take extra caution. You can access this track from the Te Werahi Gate car park on SH 1, signposted about 4.5 km south of Cape Reinga.
From the gate, there is a well-graded walk to the coast, which connects with the Te Paki Coastal Track as part of the loop. A dry-weather access across the farm leads to the signpost marking the beginning of the track.
Te Werahi is a large freshwater wetland system, which has three raupō swamps linked by narrow sandy streams. It can be seen from the road to or from Cape Reinga. Te Werahi is an important site for wetland birds such as Australasian bitterns/matuku, grey ducks, grey teals/tētē, New Zealand shovelers/kuruwhengi, pied stilts/poaka, pied shags and little shags.
Twilight - Te Werahi Loop Track
Free
