Rotorua parks

The whole Rotorua Basin is an ancient caldera, and we are high up on the west wall. There are many streams winding down towards the lake, and they have cut down into the soil to form gullies.

These have been wisely left, totally surrounded by housing, and the City has put paths along them with small bridges here and there across the water.

Where the gully bottom is flat enough, the ground is grassed and kept mown, and at intervals there are access ways down from the streets between houses.

We sometimes return via Malfroy Road (map bottom) or go round Sunset Road (yellow at top of map) to provide variation.

	Rotorua, our parks and walking tracks
	The whole Rotorua Basin is an ancient caldera, and we are high up on the west wall. There are many streams winding down towards the lake, and they have cut down into the soil to form gullies. These have been wisely left, totally surrounded by housing, and the City has put paths along them with small bridges here and there across the water. Where the gully bottom is flat enough, the ground is grassed and kept mown, and at intervals there are access ways down from the streets between houses. We sometimes return via Malfroy Road (map bottom) or go round Sunset Road (yellow at top of map) to provide variation.		It is possible to walk some distance through these parks, but we tend to do a circuit through a couple of connecting parks up to an arterial road, then walk back home -- takes about 40 minutes or so.

	The park at the end of icarus Place, with stream to the left.		The path here has recently been formed.

	This view is looking back across the road - we are heading on the red line down to Malfroy road		Back lawns tend to merge into the park, without a fence.
			More pix from our walks in due course
	This track ends at Malfroy Road, just squeezing past a side garden.

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