Tongariro field notes
Whakapapa Village

Mounds Walk

Easiest Short walk

A short climb onto a landslide hummock for a panorama of all three volcanoes.

400 mreturn
20 min returnwalking time
↑ 0 mclimb
927 mhigh point
Mounds Walk Mounds Walk © Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mounds Walk, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand (5) © Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0

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What you’ll see

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    Mounds Walk, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand (1)
    Viewpoint· 980 m Mounds Walk
Debris avalanche hummocksThree-volcano panorama

The walk

A gravel path climbs one of the debris-avalanche mounds left by a prehistoric collapse of Ruapehu. The summit platform looks across the field of mounds to Ruapehu, Ngāuruhoe, Tongariro and Pukeonake.

Start. Mounds Walk car park, SH48

Snow & season

Rarely snowy

Rarely snowy.

Best season: All year

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