Taurawharona Hut

Situated in a football-pitch sized paddock above the Waikare River, Taurawharona is a typical Urewera hut. In reasonable condition, but full of the usual political / racial / anti-DOC abuse that goes with this area.

The N-S track between Tawhana and Maungapohatu is well maintained and well used. Traffic on this accounts for the majority of the users of the hut, much of them on horseback. The river crossing just north of the hut is knee-thigh-deep in normal flows, and could be tricky after heavy rain.

A track, not marked on maps, drops from the NW end of the paddock to the Waikare River, for those heading downstream to Otanetea. Modern DOC triangles then mark a route down the riverbed (why mark it? In case we follow the wrong river?) but an older permolat track seems to side the TL for much of the route.