Review: The Pureora Timber Trail is a magical adventure

Review: The Pureora Timber Trail is a magical adventure
The trail is relatively easy. (Image: Supplied)
Helen van Berkel
This is a rare and precious place. The trees casting the welcome shade are the last remnants of a forest that once blanketed most of the North Island. These noble trunks soaring above you are part of one of the very last intact podocarp forests in the entire world. The existence of the central North Island’s Pureora Forest Park is thanks not only to the conservation activists who literally set up camp in the trees in the 1970s, but also to those who sought to destroy it.  The park was one of the last stands of native bush to be...

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