Signal Hill to Cleghorn Street

While the track is not marked all the way through on the map, it is there. The track follows farmland so we were lucky enough to walk through sheep and cows! Because the track does go through private property it is important to respect the land and the farming operations. Note that this track is closed during lambing season (september to november approx).

To get there head out of town through Opoho up Signal Hill road. About 2.5 -3km from the Botanic Gardens or the New World supermarket as you have come into farmland there are some stone walls to the left, turn left here and it's only another 200m up the road to the start of the track, you can park here.

The steepest part of the track is up to the top of Signal Hill, which, obviously, is covered with all sorts of transmitters and there is no view due to the scrub getting up too high. But continue along the track, following the orange track markers (it looks like you can go right or left as you leave the hill, go left - the right track will quickly disappear so you will know if you aren't on the correct track) and you will soon get lovely views of Mt Cargill and the Harbour.

The track is open and not difficult. It's about 4km and took our two families about an hour of meandering to walk one way. Once you walk up Signal Hill, which only takes about 10 or 15mins with little legs the rest of it is mostly down hill with a small climb up to Macgregor Hill but there is nothing too strenuous about this walk at all. Even so, the lolly bunny, who is friends with the family we walked with, paid us a few visits during the walk!

The fellas ran back to get the car to pick the rest of us up while we had a lunch picnic on the grass verge. If you have older children in your family I'm sure they could walk both ways but it's nice to have the option of a pick up at the other end for the little legs in our family. Please note that on the map above it looks like you can get across to Cleghorn St via Mt Mera, this is not the case!! You will need to drive back through North East Valley and up Main North Road to meet up with Cleghorn St.

This was a nice wander and with such fantastic views most of the way it is well worth it.