About this ride
Start: Rapaki car park at the top of Rapaki Track by the Summit Road. Rapaki Track is popular with walkers/runners and cyclists who use it to access the Summit Road from the base of the Port Hills.
Finish: Witch Hill Scenic Reserve, beside the Summit Road.
Access: Cycle up the Rapaki Track or access from Summit Road.
Signs: None at the Rapaki car park start, but it's obvious if you look for the single track.
- Begin the ride at the east end of Rapaki car park on a single track that runs under the large basalt columns of Rapaki Rock.
- Climb 70m up a smooth shared use single track to the beginning of the mountain bike track.
- The track then makes its way around Rapaki Rock and Witch Hill. Rocky technical single track with undulating terrain that doesn't let up for the majority of the ride.
- A great track if you want to test your navigation skills through lava flows and boulders.
- Stunning views on both sides at the end of the ride – out over Canterbury Plains and into Lyttelton.
