Karamea Travel Guide
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Karamea has a warm climate with over 2000 sunshine hours every year, making it the sunniest area on the
West Coast. The surroundings are beautiful with the Tasman sea on one side and Kahurangi National Park - encompassing a high plateau, 15 river catchments and a long coastal strip - on the other. The park boasts stunning walks, including the Heaphy track, and mountain bike routes.
In the Oparara Valley, just north of Karamea, there are stunning caves, canyons and arches carved from the natural limestone and backed by granite ranges. A guided tour will take you to an important assemblage of bird fossils, including moa fossils, that have been found at Honeycomb Hill - a 13-kilometre labyrinth of caves.
The town sits on the estuary of the Karamea river, 100km north of
Westport. A two-hour trip down the river from the gorge is a pleasant way to spend part of the day.
Horticulture and dairy farming are important industries to the town.