Mokihinui River
Nestled in public conservation land under the western shoulder of Kahurangi National Park, the Mokihinui is a truly wild river.
Cascading from mountain ranges, tributaries converge at the Mokihinui Forks before storming out to sea through a 14 kilometre gorge. Steep granite rocks, earthquake slips, and thundering floods make for a dynamic gorge, with sides covered in rata, beech, rimu and podocarp forests. Longfin eels abound in the water, and blue duck/whio relish in this environment.
As the final leg in a two day rafting/kayaking trip, the Mokihinui Gorge is a great initiation to helicopter trips. The ancient pack route through to the Forks provides an historic, and at stages, challenging trip through into the wide open wilderness of the upper catchment.
Read about an account of rafting the Mokihinui here.
Who's Planning to Destroy the wild Mokihinui River
The Threat to the Mokihinui River
Meridian Energy, a state-owned-enterprise (SOE) plans an 85 metre high hydro-electricity dam, flooding the entire Mokihinui Gorge. If constructed, it would be the largest inundation of conservation estate ever seen in this country. All this devastation for up to 100MW power …
Organisations Supporting the Mokihinui River
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