Distance: 0.3 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 579m to 608m. Gain: 29m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

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

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

A poled route leads over 200m of farmland from the road to the bushedge, signposted only 'Parks Peak 3hrs'. From the bushedge, a cut, marked track commences leading another few hundred meters to Sentry Box Hut.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Sentry Box Hut the cut track continues another 300m through beech before exiting onto farmland. A further 200m through paddocks leaves you on Mangleton Road.