19 Gudex Road, Bruntwood-French Pass, Waipa

Maungakawa Scenic Reserve - Gudex Memorial Park

Waipa Walks

From Cambridge drive through the scenic reserve to the park where you can find picnic tables, fireplaces and toilets. From the top near the Gudex memorial there are expansive views of the surrounding countryside. On a clear day you can see Mt Ruapehu and Mt Taranaki. Michael Christian Gudex (1887-1964) was an early conservationist and horticulturalist. A stand of Kauri were planted to commemorate his works, and a record of his botanical works is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The memorial is a stone obelix.

Nearby you can find the site of a nineteenth century 25 room house. There was once a sanatorium for Tuberculosis sufferers here.
There is a forest walk in the scenic reserve.

Image Credit: 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZG-19120306-37-1 1000.jpg Caption Reads " A glorious prospect looking down from the highest point of Mungakawa, over the Sanatorium and across the farm dotted valley of the Waikato River.", Plunket Colony, Maungakawa Sanatorium, New Zealand, 1909, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie studio. Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa, and JohnRagla.

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