Rawhiti Cave Car Park
Day Use Area
4.9 from 15 users
Contact
Harwood Road, South Island
Description
Walk to a viewing structure at possibly the most diverse and extensive entrance and twilight-zone flora of any cave in New Zealand.
Just after you leave the carpark you cross Dry River. From here, the marked route continues up the valley for 30 minutes and turns sharply right. It then climbs steeply for a further 30 minutes. The last section of the track is steep and narrow reasonable fitness and tramping experience are required for this section. The cave entrance and viewing platform are after this section.
Rawhiti Cave is signposted from near the end of Packard Road through private property to an informal carpark. Leave the gates as you find them.
No dogs.
Features
Location
Lat: -40.878062 Lng: 172.856707
User Reviews
Lois_sanborn
Disagree with the last comment, our campervan made the drive to the parking lot just fine even though it's been raining a lot and rained nearly the whole time we were there. Looked like they may have put down fresh gravel recently though. Cave is worth it, very impressive!! And there were cute goats there. :-)
User 184174
Dont go with a campervan since the road is full of mud and potholes
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rulitta
Most impressive cave that I've saw in South island ! We can't go inside , that's bad but it preserves it so ok :)