HistoryHidden gem
Lake Ohia gumholes
Karikari Peninsula, Northland
Ten-minute loop through the pits where gum diggers once worked the old lakebed.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 15 min
A short metalled track with boardwalk sections winds through manuka scrub past hand-dug gumholes and charred stumps. Information panels explain the gum-digging history. The former lakebed holds rare ferns, mosses and orchids, and the wetlands nearby are home to black mudfish.
Good to know
- Picnic tables and shade are on site
- Signposted on the right off Inland Road, 2 km from SH10
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Inland Road off SH10 north of Awanui; small roadside parking area
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
Facilities
- Picnic tables
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