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Bushlands Holiday ParkCommercial organisation |
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North Island ▷ Ruapehu ▷ Taumarunui |
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Directions Stratford Office |
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Camping Grounds
Reviews
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5.0/5
Amazing… Open, spacious remote and quiet site with goods facilities and well equipped kitchen.
Jo was an informative host. Enjoyed the shop front Museum of the Ghost Town and walk to the Fossil Canyon (More of a Fossil Cliff)…. Of all of the sites on a 24 day trip…Would love to come back here and spend more time
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5.0/5
Awesome campground.
Great clean facilities. Fully equipped kitchen. Cute outdoor area with pizza oven. Lovely owner. Beautiful surroundings and loved the walk to the canyon. Worth a detour to stay here. Interesting history. Late checkout was fine. 10/10
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5.0/5
Really in the middle of nowhere.
Great facilitie and incredible friendly. Nothing more to say. Go have a walk into the canyon! Nothing more to say …
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5.0/5
I loved this park so much I had to stay an extra day.
Beautiful scenery and extra friendly owners. The walk to the canyon is a must. This is a great stopping point on the forgotten world highway.
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5.0/5
Great place.
Friendly welcoming. You can enjoy the beautiful nature. Next to the camping ground there is one hour walk.
Clean and generous facilities. Kitchen well equipped.
A small exhibition about the ancient railway to explore and honey to buy. A lovely place to stay
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5.0/5
A really great place - it feels almost like a far stay, since it’s on a working farm.
Everything is very clean and tidy. It’s a bit of a mission to get there, since it’s 6K off the Forgotten World Highway on a very narrow gravel road, but it’s so worth it.
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5.0/5
When you find that special place.
Cicadas, lazy stream, blackberries, and an old railway line running through pristine nz bush. Thanks for sharing your piece of paradise with us.
Wild horses won't keep us away.
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5.0/5
What a fantastic find for somewhere to relax and enjoy life away from the pressures of always on connectivity.
Camping amongst the bush with no cell reception or WiFi was just the wind down we (and the tweenager) needed! The tuis, moreporks, possums, cicadas, cows and goats are all the soundtrack you need.
Jo and the team do an awesome job of maintaining the family-run site. The kitchen, BBQs, toilets, and showers are all immaculate and very well provisioned. The cabins, too, are kept to a very high standard with lovely crisp linens and nice little design touches in each.
There's plenty to do to while away the time. Go for a wander up to Fossil Canyon and see the wild horses, wander along the railway line and through the tunnels that are only used by converted golf carts, or simply chill in the river. There are lots of other walks of caring lengths, and Whangamomona and Mount Damper Falls are only half an hour away.
There are also lots of sandlies - up its good to pack the repellant!
What a gem, we'll be back.
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5.0/5
An awesome place.
No internet, great outdoor fire place n pizza oven. Friendly people. Relaxing! Love it. Remeber to take your bug spray😊
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5.0/5
Amazing campground, rustic in a beautiful bush setting, the owners are just wonderful, Jo took care of us and made sure we were well catered for.
Take the walk along a bush track to the box canyon where you will meet wild horses and goats and the amazing walls of the canyon absolutely gorgeous.
Showers are free and unlimited, awesome grounds with plenty of space along the amazing forgotten world HWY. only open during summer as it gets a bit wet in winter. We will be back next summer.
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5.0/5
Awesome campground.
Great clean facilities. Fully equipped kitchen. Cute outdoor area with pizza oven. Lovely owner. Beautiful surroundings and loved the walk to the canyon. Worth a detour to stay here. Interesting history. Late checkout was fine. 10/10
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5.0/5
Amazing… Open, spacious remote and quiet site with goods facilities and well equipped kitchen.
Jo was an informative host. Enjoyed the shop front Museum of the Ghost Town and walk to the Fossil Canyon (More of a Fossil Cliff)…. Of all of the sites on a 24 day trip…Would love to come back here and spend more time
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5.0/5
Really in the middle of nowhere.
Great facilitie and incredible friendly. Nothing more to say. Go have a walk into the canyon! Nothing more to say …
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5.0/5
I loved this park so much I had to stay an extra day.
Beautiful scenery and extra friendly owners. The walk to the canyon is a must. This is a great stopping point on the forgotten world highway.
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5.0/5
A really great place - it feels almost like a far stay, since it’s on a working farm.
Everything is very clean and tidy. It’s a bit of a mission to get there, since it’s 6K off the Forgotten World Highway on a very narrow gravel road, but it’s so worth it.
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5.0/5
Great place.
Friendly welcoming. You can enjoy the beautiful nature. Next to the camping ground there is one hour walk.
Clean and generous facilities. Kitchen well equipped.
A small exhibition about the ancient railway to explore and honey to buy. A lovely place to stay
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5.0/5
When you find that special place.
Cicadas, lazy stream, blackberries, and an old railway line running through pristine nz bush. Thanks for sharing your piece of paradise with us.
Wild horses won't keep us away.
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5.0/5
An awesome place.
No internet, great outdoor fire place n pizza oven. Friendly people. Relaxing! Love it. Remeber to take your bug spray😊
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5.0/5
What a fantastic find for somewhere to relax and enjoy life away from the pressures of always on connectivity.
Camping amongst the bush with no cell reception or WiFi was just the wind down we (and the tweenager) needed! The tuis, moreporks, possums, cicadas, cows and goats are all the soundtrack you need.
Jo and the team do an awesome job of maintaining the family-run site. The kitchen, BBQs, toilets, and showers are all immaculate and very well provisioned. The cabins, too, are kept to a very high standard with lovely crisp linens and nice little design touches in each.
There's plenty to do to while away the time. Go for a wander up to Fossil Canyon and see the wild horses, wander along the railway line and through the tunnels that are only used by converted golf carts, or simply chill in the river. There are lots of other walks of caring lengths, and Whangamomona and Mount Damper Falls are only half an hour away.
There are also lots of sandlies - up its good to pack the repellant!
What a gem, we'll be back.
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5.0/5
Amazing campground, rustic in a beautiful bush setting, the owners are just wonderful, Jo took care of us and made sure we were well catered for.
Take the walk along a bush track to the box canyon where you will meet wild horses and goats and the amazing walls of the canyon absolutely gorgeous.
Showers are free and unlimited, awesome grounds with plenty of space along the amazing forgotten world HWY. only open during summer as it gets a bit wet in winter. We will be back next summer.
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5.0/5
The best $17 I've spent.
This place is not only an amazing place to spend the night, it is a wildlife sanctuary and has wonderful natural sites. After doing some free laundry (!), we went for a walk to the old train tunnels at the recommendation of the owner Jo, which was lovely. *Caution, watch out for the broken board on the bridge to the left. Gave us a scare when we realized how close we came to falling through to our likely demise. We also went on the walk to the gorge (45 mins round trip), which was STUNNING and a highlight of our trip so far. We saw some millions of years old fossilized shells, wild horses and goats. Watch for the cows, they roam free off of the site of the actual camping grounds and this could potentially be dangerous. The facilities (bathroom, free unlimited & hot showers, full kitchen, fire pit and wood stove for pizza) are so homey and comfortable, not to mention clean! We loved it here and felt at home. Would recommend to anyone.
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5.0/5
This place is awesome.
We stopped here in the dark mid-way in our trip down the Forgotten World Highway. We did not know what to expect. There was a sign inviting us to make ourselves at home and the owners would see us in the morning. We picked a site and plugged into the power. Wole to a beautiful, peaceful setting. Huge trees. No passing traffic. No sounds except the birds and the river. Quaint showers and toilets spotlessly clean. Invitation to help yourself to $7 frozen pizzas and pay when you leave. So hospitable. Great history display in the kitchen as well as in an old building, setting out the history of the place including the old “ghost” railway construction town. Quaint tiny cabins dotted around the site. We had to keep going but would have loved to have stayed longer. Owner was so nice in the morning. Very inexpensive $. This is an excellent spot to break up the long Forgotten World Highway journey. Don’t be put off by the drive in on the dirt road, it’s worth it. Highly recommended.
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5.0/5
Beautiful campground with very clean toilets and hot showers, and a great communal kitchen.
Family was very friendly and helpful, and they even had a lovely dog you could pet to your hearts content. Just be prepared for 20+ km of gravel roads depending on what portion of 43 you're driving in on.
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5.0/5
JUST STUNNING!!!
The best experience we have had in NZ. Remote, tranquil, laid-back, relaxed, off-the-beaten-tracks.
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5.0/5
Brilliant campground.
Clean, quiet and beautiful. The owners are incredibly helpful and welcoming. We could have stayed for weeks.