Walking

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Walking and Trekking

Walking and trekking the tracks throughout New Zealand is top of the to-do list for many travellers to New Zealand. From gentle, scenic short walks to multi-day adventures, experience Aotearoa on foot and immerse yourself in the bush, beach and wilderness you came to see.

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Miners Hut

South IslandWest Coast

Time: 45 minutes return Features Rainforest, gold history, relics, old cemetery.

Bream Head from the air

North IslandNorthland

Busby Head Track

Bream Head Scenic Reserve - Whangarei Heads

Time: 1 hr Distance: 3 km

Dune Lakes behind the wild West Coast beach

South IslandWest Coast

Dune Lake Walk

Ship Creek

1 km return | 30 minutes return

Stones - Truman Beach

South IslandWest Coast

1.4 km return | 30 minutes return

Tiny

South IslandNelson Region

Pillar Point Lighthouse Track

Farewell Spit & Puponga Farm Park

3 km return | 1 hour 30 minutes return

South IslandWest Coast

Time: 40 min return

Hermitage - Walk starts behind it

South IslandMount Cook - MacKenzie

Glencoe Walk

Aoraki/Mount / Mt Cook Village

Time: 30 min return

South IslandWanaka Region

Time: 30 min, Distance 1.5lm

Sunshine bay

South IslandQueenstown Region

Time: 45 min

North IslandNorthland

Time: 30 min Distance: 1.4 km

Wharariki Beach and Puponga Farm Park in behind.

South IslandNelson Region

Wharariki Beach Walk

Archway Islands

2 km return | 40 minutes return

Castlepoint Lighthouse at sunrise

1.2 km return | 30 minutes return

Perfect reflections

South IslandWest Coast

Mirror Tarn walk

Oparara Basin

Time: 30 min

Lake Matheson on the early morning

South IslandWest Coast

Time: 1 hr 30 min round trip

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Devils Punch Bowl viewing from the road

South IslandCanterbury

2 km return | 1 hour return

Entrance to Moria

South IslandWest Coast

1 hr return

South IslandNelson Region

(Paynes Ford)

Paines Ford Scenic Reserve

Takaka

Time: 1 hour return

Tarawera Falls

North IslandRotorua Region

Time: 40 minutes return | Time: 1.4 km return

Alpine scenery in the Bealey VAlley

South IslandCanterbury

Bealey Valley Walk

Arthur's Pass

2.4 km return | 50 minutes return (to river)

One of the Blowholes in action

1.1 km return | 20 minutes return

Dunes at Sandymount

South IslandCoastal Otago

Sandfly Bay Track

Otago Peninsula

2.5 km return | 1 hour return

A view up the Tasman

South IslandMount Cook - MacKenzie

Blue Lakes and Tasman Glacier Walks

Aoraki/Mount / Mt Cook National Park

40 minutes return | 2 km return

North IslandTaupo Region

Acacia Bay Track

Lake Taupo

Time: Depends on route taken

North IslandTairāwhiti Gisborne

Ngutuoha Nature Trail

Te Urewera National Park

2 km return | 1 hour return

McLean Falls - pretty primo

South IslandSouthland

1.5 km return | 40 minutes return

Oparara Basin

South IslandWest Coast

Oparara Arch Walk

Oparara Basin

2 km return | 50 minutes return

South IslandQueenstown Region

50 mins return

Entrance to Opapaka Pa

North IslandWaikato

2 km return | 40 minutes return

Split Apple Action

Time: 15 min each way

Stunner!

South IslandCoastal Otago

2 km return | 1 hour return