Packages

Between 4- 6 hours, this round trip day walk starts and finishes back at the main Mataia Homestead carpark.

Bookings are essential. We will meet you at the start of the walk for a track briefing and to give you your map and guidebook. 

We advise that you start the walk no later than 11am.

Take time out and enjoy the one-day 12km circular Mataia Walk, followed by a night of rest and relaxation at the historic Mataia Homestead.

Example schedule: Arrive at 10am for a track briefing. Collect your map, guidebook and packed lunch and head off for your day’s adventure. Return in the evening to enjoy a well-earned beverage and a home-cooked meal at Mataia Homestead as you relax and congratulate yourself on a good day’s walk completed! In the morning, savour a leisurely breakfast and take time to explore the surrounding 5ha of landscaped gardens, before checking out by 11am. 

What’s included

• All meals:

  • Day 1: packed lunch, afternoon tea, 2 course evening meal

  • Day 2: breakfast

• Accommodation for 1 night at Mataia Homestead

• Full track briefing including guidebook and trail map

Example schedule: Arrive any time after 2pm on the afternoon of your booking day. Spend the afternoon relaxing and unwinding and explore the surrounding 5ha of gardens. 

We will meet up with you this evening to run through the walk, give you your maps and guidebooks and answer any questions, before leaving you to enjoy your evening meal.

After breakfast in the morning, put together a packed lunch from the provided supplies and then head off in your own time to complete the 12km circular walk.

With no need to head off straight away on your return, you can relax and recover from your walk with another night at the homestead, followed by a leisurely breakfast the next day, before checking out by 11am. 

We can highly recommend detouring via the Kaipara Coast Plant Centre on your way home for a stroll through their beautiful 1.5km sculpture trail, followed by a hot coffee and gourmet pie at their coffee shop.

An intensive conservation project, begun in 2005, encompasses the entire farm and evidence of this will be seen as you journey. Kilometres of fencing now protect streams, waterways, wetlands and gullies, and teams of volunteers have planted over 100,000 native trees in the last 12 years. Pest and predator traps can be seen in regular intervals along the trail and protect the growing number of endangered flora and fauna that call Mataia home, including North Island Brown Kiwi, which were re-introduced to Mataia in 2013. 

What’s included:

• All meals:

  • Arrival evening: 2 course evening meal

  • Day 1: breakfast, packed lunch supplies, afternoon tea, 2 course evening meal

  • Day 2: breakfast

• Accommodation for 2 nights at Mataia Homestead

• Full track briefing including guidebook and trail map