Murrays Walk
Thames · Waikato
Route and dog-access details for this walk come from the Department of Conservation, licensed CC BY 4.0. DOC’s own wording: “Dogs on a leash are permitted on most walking tracks but not the Kauaeranga Kauri Trail, the Pinnacles Track or at Pinnacles Hut”. Evidence: the rule-setter’s own published wording. How we check dog rules.
Good to know
Dogs are allowed here. Keep them on the lead, watch for ground-nesting birds and stock, and read the signs at the gate.
About Murrays Walk
This short walk follows 0.6 km, near Thames in Waikato.
A 15-minute (500 m) raised boardwalk in the Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Forest Park, winding through native plantings and wetland. You pass edge species like manuka and fivefinger into forest of rimu, rata, kahikatea and nikau, with at least three species of tree fern.
It sits at the easy end and gains roughly 9 m, pitching up to 16 % at its steepest, and takes about 7m to walk.
Dogs are allowed here, on the lead.