Big Rimu Walk

Big Rimu Walk
View towards canopy
Length	1.1 km (0.68 mi)
Location	Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand
Trailheads	Umere Road
Use	Nature walk
Highest point	80 m (260 ft)
Difficulty	Easy
Season	Year round
Sights	large rimu tree, native bush
Maintained by	Department of Conservation

The Big Rimu Walk is a nature trail near Karamea, located in Kahurangi National Park on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. A short walk of 1.1 kilometres (0.68 mi)^[1] through regenerating bush leads to a large rimu tree (Dacrydium cupressinum) that is 36 metres (118 ft) tall with a trunk over two metres (6 ft 7 in) in diameter and estimated to be over 1,000 years old. Other smaller rimu in the area were logged during the 1940s but this large tree was left.^[2]

The regenerating forest is dominated by kāmahi and nīkau, but there are also small rimu trees emerging. The large rimu itself has a northern rātā vine on the trunk, with extensive rātā foliage in the canopy. The tree hosts a large collection of epiphytes. One notable feature of the track to the large rimu is the presence of Dawsonia—a giant moss—growing alongside the track.^[2]

References

External links

Media related to Big Rimu Walk at Wikimedia Commons

• Video clip - Big Rimu Tree Walk - Karamea, New Zealand
• Walks in the Karamea Area, Kahurangi National Park at the Department of Conservation

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