Te Ara Kahikatea Pathway - Te Puke
Approx: 4km
Time: 22minutes
About this ride: This is a family friendly ride on the edge of the Te Puke Township, low volume roads and gravel off road paths
Area – Te Puke
Bike Type: Mountain bike or wider tyres
Park and Start: Commerce Lane
Directions: In the car park on Commerce Lane there are toilets also plenty of refresh-ment options in Te Puke.
Starting at the back of the car park riding through the memorial gates into Jubilee Park play-ing field and playground. You need to be diagonally across the playing field ending up in the right hand corner by the Te Puke Toy Library building. Ride around the outer edge of the marked out field to get there. Turning right into no exit road Stock Rd, left into King St and onto the gravel path at the end. This comes out beside Mcloughlin Park and Landscape Rd, follow the road turning left into the Te Puke Old Cemetery main gates. Straight ahead and follow the path that runs parallel to Te Puke Highway. Straight ahead and up and onto the stop bank ( not left into a drive way ) veering right at the top. Follow the Waiari river path, veering left onto the board walk. This comes out at the bottom of the hill that you came down out of King St, turn right and ride up the hill into King St, right into Stock Rd, left beside the Toy Library building and back across Jubilee Park.
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Approx: 4km
Time: 22minutes
About this ride: This is a family friendly ride on the edge of the Te Puke Township, low volume roads and gravel off road paths
Area – Te Puke
Bike Type: Mountain bike or wider tyres
Park and Start: Commerce Lane
Directions: In the car park on Commerce Lane there are toilets also plenty of refresh-ment options in Te Puke.
Starting at the back of the car park riding through the memorial gates into Jubilee Park play-ing field and playground. You need to be diagonally across the playing field ending up in the right hand corner by the Te Puke Toy Library building. Ride around the outer edge of the marked out field to get there. Turning right into no exit road Stock Rd, left into King St and onto the gravel path at the end. This comes out beside Mcloughlin Park and Landscape Rd, follow the road turning left into the Te Puke Old Cemetery main gates. Straight ahead and follow the path that runs parallel to Te Puke Highway. Straight ahead and up and onto the stop bank ( not left into a drive way ) veering right at the top. Follow the Waiari river path, veering left onto the board walk. This comes out at the bottom of the hill that you came down out of King St, turn right and ride up the hill into King St, right into Stock Rd, left beside the Toy Library building and back across Jubilee Park.
Click here to download the detailed route description
Path blocked due to railway bridge work. The rest of the path is still accessable but the whole loop needs to be done to the closure then back again., then the remaining piece and back again. Due to open in February 2020