Whispering Falls walk/Hacket track
Mount Richmond Forest Park
- 3 hr – 5 hr return via same track
- Easy/medium
A gentle walk along the Hacket track to the beautiful Whispering Falls. Dogs permitted on leads.
2 members favourited
1 member checked in
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Walking time
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0 – 1 day
3 hr – 5 hr
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Type
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Return via same track
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Grade
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Easy/medium
Generally level, one hill to get to falls Grades explained
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Bookings
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No bookings — open access
No — open access
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Starts
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Aniseed Valley carpark: drive over the hill into Aniseed Valley and follow the road some distance until "the end", just before it turns to gravel (on the outside of a bend) is a DoC sign and a carpark with toilets |
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Ends
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Aniseed Valley carpark, Richmond |
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Maps
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NZTopo50-BQ26
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Link
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www.tdc.govt.nz/index.php?AniseedValleyhttp://www.tdc.govt.nz/index.php?AniseedValley |
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From car park follow signs along Hacket track. Cross swingbridge or carefully ford river. After about an hour take left fork and follow the path over more bridges then uphill. The next part leads you through a native forest - good agility needed to clamber around trees and up some steep banks. The falls flow over the path so they can't be missed. It is possible to follow the path after the falls up a hill which brings you out onto (for want of a better word) a meadow with a picnic table. A toilet is hidden in the surrounding bush. Retrace your steps to the car park.
The track is also used by mountain bikers so beware
ID 4797
About this track
Added 8 December 2009 by Ocky_Ocky_.
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