Distance: 1.4 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Road - Easy terrain
Altitude: 438m to 514m. Gain: 89m. Loss: 13m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Road (1/9)
Formed road, 4WD track, etc

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From the Mill Site, cross the river. This is knee to thigh deep in normal flows and can be impassable after rain. Pick up the continuation of Wakarara Rd on the opposite bank, climbing the face. The former Makararo Base Camp has been removed - it's not the accommodation block at Ongaonga field centre, and features a photo of a bulldozer dragging a house-moving truck with the building on across the river.

Turn left along Makaroro Rd to reach the park boundary 500m later at a signposted DOC junction. This section passes through private forestry, but permission is not required.

Craig Hut has also been removed.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Yeomans Track / Makaroror Rd junction, head south along Makaroro Rd to the first junction on the sharp corner shown on the map. Take the Wakarara Rd Se to the river, which must be forded. The river is knee to thigh deep in normal flows, and can become impassible after rain. The Wakarara roadend carpark is on the opposite bank.