Karamea

locality in Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand

Karamea is a small town near the northern end of the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand. Apart from a narrow coastal strip, the town of Karamea and its local area are completely surrounded to the south, east and north by Kahurangi National Park.

Understand

Bridge Street

Karamea has a population of 360 in 2018 The town was first settled in 1874.

Get in

By car

Karamea is 96 km north of Westport, near the end of the road north.

By bus

By plane

Get around

See

Do

Longer walks

  • Heaphy Track. The southern end of this 78-km track is 14 km north from Karamea. (updated Mar 2018)
  • Wangapeka Track. The western end of this 59-km track is about 10 km south of Karamea. (updated Mar 2018)

Shorter walks & caves

  • Honeycomb Hill caves. via Oparara Basin, the caves have 15 km of passages. As the caves are protected, they are only accessible by guided tour which can be customised by arrangement. (updated Mar 2018)
  • Oparara Basin walks. There are a number walking tracks of from 1 km to 10 km in the Oparara Basin. (updated Mar 2018)
  • The Fenians walks. The old gold diggings also have a range of walking tracks of 4 km to 14 km through forests with lots of different fungi. (updated Mar 2018)

Buy

Eat and drink

Sleep

Karamea Village Hotel

Connect

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