Distance: 5.4 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Road - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 515m to 597m. Gain: 124m. Loss: 131m . Gradient: 3 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

Road (1/9)
Formed road, 4WD track, etc

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From Ellis Hut, take Ellis Road west for 500m to a track junction, and turn left (west) up Yeomans Road. This soon leaves pines and enters beech, climbing gently for 1km until it reaches a junction in a clearing with an old chimney stack. Take the left fork (south) - Yeomans Track. This track follows an old logging tramway as is winds in and out of several valleys. The old tramway has a gentle gradient and is broad, well cut though muddy in places. All creeks are bridged. Cyclists use this route.

After 4km, a signposted junction marks the end of the Parks Peak track, dropping from the west.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted turnoff to Parks Peak, Yeomans Track continues along the base of the hills, snaking in and out of several small valleys. The old tramway has a gentle gradient and is broad, well cut though muddy in places. All creeks are bridged. Cyclists use this route.

The track ends at a junction at an old chimneystack at the end of Yeomans Road. Taking the right-hand (eastern) track, drop gently through beech forest on the 4WD track to the start of pine forests. From here the metaled Ellis Road continues east 500m to the historic Ellis Hut.