Here’s your guide to exploring Omanawa Falls:

🥾 Trail: An easy 30 minute return walk to the first two viewing platforms. If you are up for a challenge, you can add another 1-1.5hrs to your journey and head to the third viewing platform above the waterfall. However, you can’t see the falls from here.

🅿️ Access/Parking: There is heaps of free parking at the trailhead off the main road.

📏 Difficulty: Easy-moderate.

🤫 Secret: YOU CAN’T SWIM HERE. There used to be a really dodgy ladder providing access to the base of the falls, but even then swimming was prohibited for cultural reasons. This site is tapu. Shouldn’t be a secret, but seems to be for some!!

👧👦 Family-friendly: Yes.

🦮 Dog-Friendly: No.

🌞 Shade: There is plenty of native bush providing shade.

🚽 Facilities: Yes, at the trailhead.

🗑️ Leave no trace: Preserve this beautiful spot by taking your rubbish with you and staying on marked trails.

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