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Arai-Te-Uru signal station walk
Omapere, Northland
Clifftop walk at the South Head of the Hokianga with a grassy lookout over the harbour mouth.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 30 min
From the Arai Te Uru reserve car park a short walk follows the cliff tops to a grassed headland lookout. You look up the Hokianga Harbour past flax, manuka and cabbage trees. A few upright timbers mark the site of the old signal station, which operated from 1838 to 1951.
Good to know
- Steep drop-offs, supervise children
- Nearest toilets are in Omapere
- Fine for buggies as far as the headland, not to Martins Bay
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Signal Station Road, 56 km west of Kaikohe on SH12 via Omapere; track starts at Arai Te Uru reserve car park
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
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