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Te Araroa Trust and the Department of Conservation have teamed up to create the $195 pass for the 2024-25 season which can be used to stay at 71 of DOC's huts and campsites along the way.
A tramper who drowned in the Wairoa River near Nelson while hiking the Te Araroa Trail had put pressure on himself to complete the 3000km trek within three months, the coroner has found. Petr ...
Pete Oliver and Lizzie Cook, walking New Zealand to raise funds for gut cancer, deviated from Te Araroa Trail to spend time in Maxwell with Pete's cousin, Jill Hare. Recently returned from working ...
The Te Araroa Trail, begins at Cape Reinga / Te Rerenga Wairua and ends at Bluff, with the halfway point (for the 18/19 season) just 4km south of the new shelter.
In 2011 a 3,000 km long walking trail was opened in New Zealand. Geoff Chapple had spent years lobbying for the creation of Te Araroa. He’d written articles in newspapers and tested out routes ...
He had told a fellow Te Araroa walker also from the Czech Republic, who was walking the trail southbound, that he planned to complete the trail in three months before his visa expired in June 2023.