Karamea

Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany

• Karamea Information & Resource Centre

  address: 106 Bridge Street, Market Cross

By car

By bus

• Karamea Express run a minibus from Westport.
• Karamea Connections provide on-demand shuttles to and from walking tracks.

By plane

• Karamea Aerodrome

  Golden Bay Air flies scheduled and on-demand flights from Nelson and Takaka, and on-demand flights from Wellington.

• Karamea Centennial Museum

Longer walks

• Heaphy TrackThe southern end of this 78 km track is 14 km north from Karamea.

• Wangapeka TrackThe western end of this 59 km track is about 10 km south of Karamea.

Shorter walks & caves

• Honeycomb Hill cavesvia Oparara Basin, the caves have 15 km of passages. As the caves are protected, they are only accessible by guided tour which can be customised by arrangement.

• Oparara Basin walksThere are a number walking tracks of from 1 km to 10 km in the Oparara Basin.

• The Fenians walksThe old gold diggings also have a range of walking tracks of 4 km to 14 km through forests with lots of different fungi.

• Four Square Supermarket

  address: 103 Bridge Street

Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany

• Karamea Village Hotel9 room hotel and restaurant.

• The Last Resort

  phone: +64 3 782 6617
  address: 71 Waverley Street
  31 room hotel with backpacker dorms, ensuite rooms, studios and cottages, restaurant, cafe and bar.

• Karamea River Motels

  phone: +64 3-782 6955

• Wangapeka Backpackers Retreat/Farmstay

  address: Wangapeka Valley Road, Little Wanganui
  Set in 40 acres of rainforest and 20 acres of farmland, this is a small and personal family-run backpacker farm stay at the start of the Wangapeka Track and close to the Heaphy Track. Facilities are shared with the family, and meals are available on request.

• Westport - a cute town with a cuter seal colony at Carter's Beach
• Punakaiki - the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes
• Greymouth - the largest town in the West Coast region