Hunua Hillbilly

This is the route for the Hunua Hillbilly event.

This course has been designed to take in all the good bits of the Hunua Ranges which can currently be accessed. To be honest, it pretty much takes in EVERY open track in the Hunua Ranges, good thing they are all just SO good! 😊. You will be taken on a 60km circumnavigation of the Hunua Ranges Regional Park, with the centre point to your day being the stunning event base location of the upper Mangatawhiri campground – where your run will start and finish.

The bulk of the run will be on grunty single track under the cover of stunning native bush. There will also be a combination of gravel roads, MTB trail, boardwalks, swing bridges and even the odd Water Care dam mixed in for good measure.

Follow the bulk of the "Farm Loop" through the valley/Mountain Biking trails to start with - this is the trickiest part to navigate but it is also the safest/less remote area of the course. From there, you are following established council tracks with not many junctions, they are well marked and easy to follow with a topo map and even the basic park map if necessary. Keep in mind, that it becomes more technical between the 22km until about 42km in.

When you aren’t under the very welcome cover of the bush, you will enjoy some of the most stunning 360 views that the Auckland Region and New Zealand has to offer, including reaching the highest point in the city at 688m – Kohukohunui nicknamed, 'K Trig'. This is the sort of run that will have you hoping it never ends and hanging out for the finish line all at once!