Motu Trails Charitable Trust
The Motu Trails Charitable Trust helps manage, maintain and promote the Motu Trails. Trail access is free so please consider supporting us!
Bay of Plenty
Motu Trails (www.motutrails.co.nz) is one of the Great Rides on Nga Haerenga, New Zealand Cycle Trails. At Motu Trails Charitable Trust, we manage, maintain and promote the trails. We develop free trail brochures, provide free/current trail info online; do regular maintenance on Pakihi and Dunes Trail; drive trail extensions and enhancements such as shelters; assist trail-related services; and more. Access to Motu Trails is 100% free so if you've used the trails, please consider supporting us. Thank you!
More about us
At Motu Trails Charitable Trust, we help manage and promote the Motu Trails for the good of visitors and locals alike. With trail access 100% free, we depend on grants and donations. Thank you.
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Your donation will help Motu Trails Charitable Trust to promote and manage Motu Trails — benefiting all users.
Latest update
Update winter 2025 17 July 2025
As always, 2025's been a busy year for the Motu Trails team. At Motu Trails Charitable Trust we continue to do all trail maintenance on Dunes Trail (pictured) and Pakihi Track, and most of the maintenance on local linking trails, plus the signage and shelters on Motu Road. We maintain Pakihi most weeks of the year.
New projects this year include some new signage, a bike tool stand in Motu village shelter (big thanks to Garth Barfoot for support!), plus water control and track widening work on Pakihi.
Volunteer trapping has been going great, with literally hundreds of rats and scores of stoats and weasels removed from Pakihi and Dunes Trail the last couple of years. Dunes Trail planting continues each winter.
If you want to know more about the trails, please visit www.motutrails.co.nz, or ask in Opotiki, Gisborne or Whakatane isite visitor centres, or contact Motu Trails Trust direct on info@motutrails.co.nz
Thank you for any support, it really does get put to good use on Motu Trails!
Jim
Latest donations
Thank you Kaz & Dingo! It's great to hear the trail is one of your faves, too :) :) Jim
Thank you Gina! :) :) If you're doing Kopiko Aotearoa, all best for the ride! Jim
Awesome thank you Sian - it's so good to see people running the trails as well as cycling and walking them :) Jim
Thank you for the donation Charlie, it is really appreciated and supports our work in keeping the track open — which as you probably saw has been a bit of a challenge in recent months! All best Jim
Thank you Kaz! I hope you ended up getting a ride with the challenging weather! Jim
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