HIKU 2 Traditional Cache

Kaingaroa Forest is located between Rotorua and Taupo on the Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand’s central North Island. The first plantings of the forest were at Waiotapu in the early 1900s, and much of the total 190,000 ha of plantable land is now growing its third crop of trees. The majority of the forest is planted on land leased from local Iwi.

The flat terrain and pumice soils create a waterproof forest for year round harvesting, of approximately 4M m³ per annum of radiata pine and small volumes of Douglas fir. This volume is supported by sound infrastructure for road and rail transport and a deep water export port nearby. It is also supported by a well developed processing industry, with sawmills and pulp mills in close proximity.

The cach is located 30 minutes SE of Rotorua