The trail can be walked in about six hours, with the Staircase Falls situated at about the halfway point and Makarewa Falls at the top, Sandford said. Fellow club member John Cowie added the trail was 16 kilometres, with 10 kilometres on steep terrain. More than 500 hours of voluntary labour had gone into the project which was first talked about in 2018, he said. The trail will probably be officially named the Makarewa Falls Trail, club members say. The Department of Conservation owns the land, and it gave the rotary club approval to create the trail, with guidelines including no cutting down trees or excavating.