A freshly built trail dropping toward a turquoise bay, framed by ponga and coastal bush

Far North · Northland

Access around your land. Or a world-class trail out the back.

Mountain bike parks, private trails, and walking tracks — built with a small machine that can work where the heavy gear should not go.

Call Ryan
021 216 4641
Based
Far North, NZ

How we build

A high-quality trail with a low environmental footprint. The machine is light, the line is deliberate, and the bush stays standing.

What we build

Mountain bike parked on a shaped roller above pine forest

01

Mountain bike trails

  • Design and build of mountain bike parks
  • Private trails for a backyard or a block of land
  • Maintenance when a line needs bringing back
Narrow walking track through coastal bush

02

Walking & access

  • Tracks and access through delicate country
  • Built with a small, low-impact digger
  • Careful work where erosion and disturbance matter

The machine

Kubota U17-3.180° tilting bucket.

Lightweight and highly manoeuvrable. It minimises ground disturbance, helps prevent erosion, and lets us work in sensitive or awkward terrain where heavier machinery cannot go.

  • Small enough to thread between trees
  • Tilt bucket for a clean, drained bench
  • Less mess on the way in, and on the way out
Orange Kubota U17-3 excavator branded Lovett Trail Builders, and a close-up of the tilting bucket

Past work

Places the trails already are

Public parks, school grounds, coastal access and private bush — from Waitangi to Dargaville, Kerikeri and Waipu.

  1. Dirt trail opening onto a turquoise bay at Waitangi

    01 · Mountain bike

    Waitangi Mountain Bike Park

    Waitangi, Far North

    Park trails above the water — berms, flow and a line that stays in the bush rather than clearing it.

  2. A mountain bike on a freshly built roller above pine forest

    02 · Mountain bike

    Kauri Coast Mountain Bike Park

    Dargaville, Northland

    Singletrack through pine country on the Kauri Coast, shaped for speed and for the hill it sits on.

  3. Narrow coastal walking track under a leafy canopy

    03 · Walking & access

    Coastal access

    Northland

    A walking and access line through coastal bush, cut narrow so the canopy and the view both stay.

  4. Red-clay walking track through Kerikeri bush

    04 · Walking & access

    Bush walk

    Kerikeri, Northland

    A bush walk threaded between standing trees — the kind of ground a big digger would have to knock down to reach.

  5. A tabletop jump on orange dirt at Harding Park

    05 · Mountain bike

    Harding Park

    Dargaville, Northland

    Jumps and flowing dirt at Harding Park — a park line you can session, built to hold its shape.

  6. Walking track through bush at Waipu

    06 · Walking & access

    Bush walk

    Waipu, Northland

    A quiet bush walk at Waipu, built for people on foot and for the slope it crosses.

  7. Rollers and a jump under construction at Oruiti School

    07 · Mountain bike

    Oruiti School

    Far North

    A school track in the Far North — rollers and jumps on the paddock edge, sized for the site.

01

Walk the idea

Tell us what the land needs — a park, a private line, or a way through.

02

Read the ground

We look at access, slope, drainage and what should be left alone.

03

Build it lightly

The small digger does the work. You get a trail, not a scar.

Contact

Tell us about the land.

Ryan picks up. A call is usually the fastest way to work out whether the job is a fit. If you would rather write it down, the form opens an email to us.

Phone021 216 4641Emaillovetttrailbuilders@gmail.com

Working across the Far North, Whangārei, Kaipara and Auckland. Based in the Far North.

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