Distance: 3.9 km (1.3 DOC hours) - Road - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 26m to 313m. Gain: 23m. Loss: 310m . Gradient: 5 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

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

Leave the carpark and take the first junction right marked by the Te Ramaroa sign. This is a loop walk (it climbs up to join the Te Kouka track, but we will carry on up the stream). More details here:
https://www.wellingtonregionaltrails.com/trails/whareroa-farm-recreation-reserve/te-ara-ramaroa-track/
Follow the farm track up the stream - look out for cattle! When the marked road leaves the stream, you'll be on unmarked 'trail'. Stay up on the true left of the stream and carry on up. The stream passes under a fence to keep stock out of the forestry section. Pop over hte fence and join the farm track that goes beside (tru left) then climbs up via the stream. Follow the stream up and at a minor junction near the top, stay on the tru right side. No worries if you don't - you'll climb up onto the road anyway where you can backtrack along the road to the junction. You'll pass a pond at the top just below the junction.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

skirt around the right hand side of he pond and follow the stream/valley down the hill. You'll find yourself on a grassy farm track that drops down steeply in the stream bed before it climbs on the true left. Climb the fence and follow the stream down to join the marked Te Ramaroa Track, following this out to the car park.