Distance: 2.4 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 740m to 1336m. Gain: 632m. Loss: 39m . Gradient: 17 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

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

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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 Makaroro Hut, head 50m downstream to the first spur climbing east. Crossing of the Makaroro River is required to reach the hut - ankle to knee deep in normal flows. Here a signposted, marked, cut track climbs 750 up the spur to the eastern ridgeline. On reaching the summit, another track junction is reached, with Parks Peak Hut 50m north along the ridge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Parks Peak, head 50m south to the track junction, and turn west down in to the Makaroro vallety (signposted Upper Makaroro Hut). A 750m near-vertical drop to the river down a defined spur. A marked, cut track.

Crossing of the Makaroro River is required to reach the hut - ankle to knee deep in normal flows. Makaroro Hut is 50m upriver on the western bank.