Distance: 1.3 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 355m to 394m. Gain: 56m. Loss: 34m . Gradient: 4 deg (Flat)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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 the gate at the roadend, the track starts on the riverbank through farmland - cow-pugged muddy flats for 500m to the bushedge. Here, a track starts just upriver of the sidecreek, climbs to cross the sidecreek 10m above the valley floor, and enters the bush beyond. This is a good platformed sidle track and great going, 600m beyond, a signpost marks the turnoff to Tawa Hut - a track dropping left to the river and a bridge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the track junction, the benched track sidles through mature bush for a further 600m to the bushedge, where it drops to muddy, cow-pugged river flats which it follows a further half kilometer to the roadend and carpark.