EXTEND YOUR TREK

If 80 minutes isn’t enough to get your blood pumping sufficiently, there are various options for continuing your walk. The simplest is to cross the Dawson Falls Visitor Centre car park and look for the start of the Kapuni Loop Track, a one-hour (1.4km) circuit through more ‘goblin forest’ alongside the Kapuni Stream to the base of the 18m-high Dawson Falls. The track then climbs steeply to the falls lookout, crosses the road and continues back through forest to the visitor centre.

Alternatively, you can link the Wilkies Pools and Kapuni Loop Tracks via the Ridge Track (one hour). This also avoids the short double back at the end of the Pools Track.