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This track is situated on the southern side of SH5. Taking the track to the right from the car park you have the option of walking to a pitsaw pit and returning (20 minutes return) or continuing around the loop. Approximately 45 minutes past the pitsaw pit is an historic water trough and totara fence, relics of the old township. As you continue up the track to the site of Opepe Township, you cross the orginal Napier Taupo Road. At one time Opepe Township had a hotel, a store and several dwellings and remains of water wells can still be seen. An Armed Constabulary stockade was situated on the western escarpment and occupied from 1869 to 1885. |
