{"id":311,"date":"2020-08-21T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:39:39","slug":"overnighter-on-the-heaphy-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/2020\/08\/21\/overnighter-on-the-heaphy-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnighter on the Heaphy Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope everyone had a good Queen&#8217;s Birthday weekend. We spent some time with family in Westport and made time for an overnighter on the Heaphy Track. We were lucky&nbsp;to get the ride done just before the weather really turned bad that Sunday night on the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We parked at the South end of the Heaphy near Karamea and rode in. It&#8217;s about 18km to the Heaphy Hut with a few small, punchy climbs here and there, but still relatively flat as you follow the beach most of the way. We stayed&nbsp;at the Ranger&#8217;s Hut (father-in-law is a DOC Ranger) right next to the Heaphy Hut. We heard some kiwi calls around 4am and went outside to investigate, hoping for a photo, but just couldn&#8217;t find them. Maybe next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Heaphy Hut was packed with about 19&nbsp;bikes there the next morning. Heaps of people on the trail. Most people will ride the Heaphy North to South, but an out-and-back on the South end is a good way to just get out there&nbsp;without having to worry about transportation back to the car. And it&#8217;s an easy ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a great ride. Get out there!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-1.webp 600w, https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-1-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-2.webp 600w, https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ht-2-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a good Queen&#8217;s Birthday weekend. We spent some time with family in Westport and made time for an overnighter on the Heaphy Track. We were lucky&nbsp;to get the ride done just before the weather really turned bad that Sunday night on the coast. We parked at the South end of the Heaphy&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmhtest.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}