Rangituhi-Colonial Knob
Rangituhi-Colonial Knob is an outstanding location for mountain biking and other forms of recreation.
But it needs more single-track trails to do justice to its potential. Read about existing mountain bike trails here.
The big hill offers any gradient you’d want, diverse forms of vegetation – native and exotic forest and grasslands - huge panoramas of Cook Strait and Porirua Harbour, space to spare and elevation – 468m of it. Something for everyone.
And all within a short bike ride of downtown Porirua and Tawa.
Mana Cycle Group’s mantle of developing Rangituhi to meet its full potential has been passed on to the Porirua Adventure Park which will include a lift-access bike park, with hiking and sightseeing trails, a village base with a 200-seat café.
We want you enjoy what it has to offer, but as a volunteer group we appreciate any support you can give to help us complete our vision for a first-class recreation facility for young and old, the fit and not-so fit, the highly skilled and those starting out.
We still have much work on Rangituhi, maintaining and improving existing trails while the adventure park gets underway. As a volunteer group we appreciate any support you can give.
Rangituhi, means sky glow, and offers views of Cook Strait and on clear days the Kaikoura Range to the south, Waikanae to the north and Mt Taranaki in the north-west.
The hill is mainly covered by regenerating native forest (most of the original rimu and rata has been logged) and grasslands.
Te Ara a Rangituhi or Rangituhi Trail Park will include trails in four separately designated parks and reserves through the Elsdon, Colonial Knob and Spicer area:
But it needs more single-track trails to do justice to its potential. Read about existing mountain bike trails here.
The big hill offers any gradient you’d want, diverse forms of vegetation – native and exotic forest and grasslands - huge panoramas of Cook Strait and Porirua Harbour, space to spare and elevation – 468m of it. Something for everyone.
And all within a short bike ride of downtown Porirua and Tawa.
Mana Cycle Group’s mantle of developing Rangituhi to meet its full potential has been passed on to the Porirua Adventure Park which will include a lift-access bike park, with hiking and sightseeing trails, a village base with a 200-seat café.
We want you enjoy what it has to offer, but as a volunteer group we appreciate any support you can give to help us complete our vision for a first-class recreation facility for young and old, the fit and not-so fit, the highly skilled and those starting out.
We still have much work on Rangituhi, maintaining and improving existing trails while the adventure park gets underway. As a volunteer group we appreciate any support you can give.
Rangituhi, means sky glow, and offers views of Cook Strait and on clear days the Kaikoura Range to the south, Waikanae to the north and Mt Taranaki in the north-west.
The hill is mainly covered by regenerating native forest (most of the original rimu and rata has been logged) and grasslands.
Te Ara a Rangituhi or Rangituhi Trail Park will include trails in four separately designated parks and reserves through the Elsdon, Colonial Knob and Spicer area: