W2K and headloop (Kinloch to Whakaipo Bay) Grade 3 Distance 22.2km – Approx 3.5 – 4 hours

• Great Lake Trail

  3 hoursAdmission Ticket Free

  The trail climbs steadily up through native bush onto the headland providing great views across the lake and back down into Kinloch. Here you have the option to ride the Headland Loop - which follows the Whangamata Bluffs. Great native bush and awesome views across the lake to the Kaimanawas, Karangahape Cliffs and Tongariro National Park Taupo). Listen out for the birds!! Once back at the junction, you will continue to ride down the undulating pumice trail through that loops around contours on the hillside through native bush. At the end you will ride through farmland, past paddocks of sheep and down into Whakaipo Bay which is one of the last untouched public and farmed reserves left on the shores of Lake Taupo. This place is so rustic and raw, you will be speechless. A good climb still for less experienced or less fit riders that rewards you with everything you could want from a ride; great views, fast and flowing down hills, a real mountain bike ride pleaser.