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Where Can I Camp?

Camps are split into 2 categories:

Full-service camps are commercial camps offering on-site managers, power, hot showers and other facilties.
Basic & Freedom camps have little or no facilities, and no powered sites.

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Activities & Adventures

Phantasmagoric Narnia Rockscape

Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a ridge of limestone boulders rising directly above SH 73 in the eastern foothills of the Southern Alps. The area is basically a fun maze of fabulously odd eroded grey limestone outcroppings. There are no marked tracks...

Geothermal Wonders Track

Rainbow Mountain

This is a fantastic and oft overlooked track. Undoubtedly (would you doubt me?) this is the finest viewpoint since the crater of Mt. Ngauruhoe. Really! This is why: first you’ve got a well-made track that brings...

Scenic Waterfall

Te Reinga Falls

This off-the-beaten-path waterfall is massive— huge flow, multi-tiers, crescendo of sound, canyon o’ spray. World fame has somehow eluded this waterfall, but when Tourism NZ spreads the word about prehistoric dinosaur...

Surf Beach / Fresh Water Dune Lake

Bethell's Beach

Bethell’s Beach is simply a fun-to-explore playground…another Waitakere gem! It’s a lot less commercialized than Piha—no campground or Dairy or pubs. The surf is epic with surf lifeguards...

NZ's Finest Slot Canyon

Sawcut Gorge Streambed Route

Note: this is a sunny-day route. Do not attempt the route just after a huge rainstorm.

This in-the-streambed route leads to Sawcut Gorge, NZ’s finest slot canyon. Surprisingly, this slot canyon was...

NZ's Longest Swing Bridge

Waiohine Gorge

This forested gorge has good camping and riverside swimming holes. The trails are all pretty rugged tramper’s tracks—viewless, steep, boggy challenges. But, if you’ve yet to cross a New Zealand swing bridge…then...

Jurassic Playground With Mini-Dolphins

Curio Bay

There’s nowhere else on our planet like Curio Bay. A strong statement, yes, but there’s simply nowhere else in the world that you can watch happyhour penguins hop atop barnacle-encrusted petrified tree stumps after an...

Waterfall Swimming Hole

Kaiate Falls

Kaiate (or Te Rerekawau)Falls is one of those “locals” places. A cool-as spot that locals love but guidebooks like Lonely Planet completely overlook. Even the DOC literature hardly inspires a visit. That’s why you have...

Free

Mud Pool

Mud Pool may be my favorite place in the North Island (oh wait, maybe I said that about Ngauruhoe, Tongaporutu, and Waitakere forest too. Ooops, sorry) It sort of seems that Tourism Waiotapu would have you believe that Mud Pool is part...

Monster Waterfall

Wairere Falls

These falls are…(here I go again)…a surprise spectacle, a marvelous magnificence! Unexpectedly, 14km east of Matamata’s Shiredoor Hobbitland, the Wairere stream leaps off a 152m escarpment as if it just can’t...

Stair-Step Waterfall

Fairy Falls

Fairy Falls is an idyllic fern-draped waterfall that tumbles nearly 100m in a continuous series of pools and drops. The popular track to the falls (especially weekends) is pretty steep, but well-maintained. Expect plenty of steps...

Southern-Most Big Kauri

Tuahu Kauri

This giant may be the southernmost of the really big Kauris—this is the south end of their natural range. An easy walk will bring you within huggable proximity of this 2.7m-wide behemoth. If you’ve already seen the giants of...

The Better Side

Lake Tarawera East Shore

One side of Lake Tarawera will frustrate you with a touristy bustle fresh from the buried village. The other end of the lake will delight you with like-minded adventure folks, its quiet, its sunset, and its waterfall track. The Eastern-...