Where to ride in Wellington

Riding Areas In Wellington

Makara Peak

No riding visit to Wellington is really complete without a trip to Makara Peak. Check their site popular loops. 

Wainuomata Trail Project

A  hugely popular park with Welly locals. Good range of tracks from beginners to advanced. For the adventurous, check out Rata Ridge across the highway from the park.

Miramar Track Project

A mountain biker-led community project in the suburb of Miramar, Wellington, NZ. Featuring several downhill trails varying from flowy jump trail to super technical and an asphalt. pump track.

Mount Victoria

Located in the heart of the city, always popular Mt Vic features a range of intermediate to advanced technical trails and newly built (in 2021) jump line.

Belmont Regional Park

Belmont Regional Park covers 3500 hectares of hills and valleys between Porirua and Hutt Valley. Points of interest within the park include: Korokoro Dam, World War II ammunition magazines, and part of the original Old Coach Road. Spectacular views of the park and beyond are on offer from several peaks including Boulder Hill, Round Knob, Cannons Head, and Belmont Trig.

Rangituhi-Colonial Knob

Rangituhi-Colonial Knob is an outstanding location for mountain biking and other forms of recreation.
The big hill offers any gradient you’d want, diverse forms of vegetation – native and exotic forest and grasslands - huge panoramas of Cook Strait and Porirua Harbour, space to spare and elevation – 468m of it.

Waimapihi (Polhill) Reserve

Waimapihi is part of the Wellington Town Belt and a short ride from the CBD and the infamous Garage Project Brewery. Trails in the area include Transient, Car Parts, Barking Emu, Highbury Fling, Car Parts Extension, Windmill, Ikigai, Serendipity and Clinical – all up 15kms of trails, 7 km of which is a Grade 3 loop.

Planning is underway for new trails down to and up from Wellington’s rugged south coast.

Tunnel Gully Recreation Area

Tunnel Gully is located north of Upper Hutt and features a selection of hand built single track. Track grading ranges from easy to advanced and family friendly rides around the remutaka Incline are suitable for everyone.