East Cape to Cape Egmont Traverse


This East Cape to Cape Egmont Traverse is not so much a trail, more a Kiwi pilgrimage to our early pioneers and landscape.
Two authors/walkers have completed this traverse and written books:
At age 86 A.H. Reed didn't take the difficult Raukumara Range Forest Park route, but followed the east coast beaches south, visiting coastal communities, before heading west inland. A great Kiwi feat none-the-less.

The 1970s proposed ''Cape Egmont to East Cape'' walkway

Starting in the late 1970s the then Department of Survey and Land Information embarked on a project to link Cape Egmont to East Cape by a walkway.
At least one section of the ‘Cape Egmont to East Cape’ walkway was completed and still remains in use: