Puhinui Stream Track
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Walking
Te Araroa trail section: Make your way through Wiri to Auckland Botanic Gardens.
Puhinui Stream Track - 9km
At the end of Prices Road continue straight ahead, passing farm buildings, a house on your left and a pond on your right. You’ll see a cattle grid stile across the fence into the reserve. After the stile bear left off the gravel path and through a farm gate. Head east across the reserve to a gate in the northeast corner (the row of trees on your left intersects the reserve at that point). Join the gravel path there and continue north alongside Puhinui Stream.
Crossing the footbridge, continue upstream, now on the Puhinui’s true left bank. Leave the stream at Aerovista Place. Turn right out of Aerovista into McLaughlins Road, then left into Vogler Drive to the junction with Roscommon Road. Turn right and follow Roscommon Road until the traffic lights.
Turn left off Roscommon Road into Wiri Station Road. Follow this road about 2.5kms to its junction with Lambie Drive and Druces Road. Diagonally across the intersection, the Puhinui Stream track opens up again. Follow it through to meet up with Kerrs Road.
Follow Kerrs Road east up to Great South Road, turn right down Great South Road for 400m to where the Puhinui Stream goes underneath. Take the pedestrian underpass to the true right-hand bank of the Puhinui Stream and follow this very impressive track (opened 2012) right up and underneath the Southern Motorway into the Auckland Botanic Gardens. Update March 2025. Continue 400m further on Great South Rd, turn left onto Oram Rd and continue for 600m to the intersection with David Ave. Turn right onto David Ave and immediately turn left onto the pedestrian path. This will take you under the motorway where you resume your walk on Te Araroa
Te Araroa was previously signposted through the lower part of the park to Wairere Road. The current route goes through the extensive ornamental gardens and past the Visitor Centre and Cafe Miko to the Botanic Garden Entrance.
Conditions
Potential hazards
- Vehicles on road or track – take care in urban areas
- Few water sources recommended not to drink from Puhinui Stream
Leave gates as you find them.
How to get here
Northern Start: Puhinui Reserve, Prices Road
Southern End: Botanical Gardens Entrance, Hill Road
Transport
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Bus stops on Hill Rd
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Auckland Transport - for bus or train information - P: 0800 103 080 freephone or 09 366 6400. All public transport, buses, trains and ferries operated by Auckland Transport uses an AT HOP card for payment. Cash payments are not accepted onboard buses, trains or ferries.
- Pre-pay AT HOP cards can be purchased and topped up at many small shops in Auckland and from vending machines at some terminals and the Take Home shop at Auckland International Airport. $5 card purchase, plus transport credit as required. It is highly recommended to download the free AT Mobile app for planning any trip in Auckland, whether by public transport or on foot as the app calculates route maps to any address
Accommodation
Heaven's Rest B&B - 180A Mill Road, Bombay. 022 312 1462 and email is info@heavensrest.co.nz
- One night’s accommodation in one of our rooms or cabins
- Pick up and drop off to the Te Araroa Trail
- Continental breakfast
- Free laundry facilities and use of full kitchen
- $20 discount on any massage treatment*
The price is $119 for 1 person or $129 for 2.
Here is a link to the package
Drury Hills Nest – Drury Hills Road P: 022 692 3054 (Hannah) or 021 566 527 (Jono) E: druryhillsnest@gmail.com – Spacious, self-contained detached accommodation, comfy super king bed, heat pump, wifi and a flat-screen TV. Continental breakfast provided. Happy to accommodate up to two kids, too.
Food And Supply
- Westfield Mall - Corner Great South and Wiri Station Rds, Manukau. Full range including supermarkets, shops, café, banks and pharmacies available.
Track Elevation and Map
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More information
- on the main trail is the Miko Café and Visitor Centre at the Auckland Botanic Gardens - 102 Hill Rd, Manurewa - P: 09 269 3407
Before starting Te Araroa either as a through-walker of the whole country or a section walker, please register on Te Araroa website. Please also visit the website or download the app for detailed maps, trail alerts and other relevant information.
This track is part of the Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa track database. Herenga ā Nuku has maps and advice about public access to the outdoors.
We encourage you to continue gaining the skills and knowledge required for a safe trip. The NZ Mountain Safety Council has lots of free resources and information you can use. These can be accessed via www.mountainsafety.org.nz.
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Page last updated: 29/04/2025, 11:22 am