SAFE and preferred camping spots North Island

[KiwiKat]

With summer coming up there are going to be a lot of bikers wanting to travel and camp out in safety.

Where are some of your favourite overnight camping spots?
Where should bikers stay away from? :soon:

[CookMySock]

Ohiwa Family Holiday Park.

http://www.ohiwaholidays.co.nz/

Google Map http://tinyurl.com/3q543w

[Tank]

All Top10 parks are brillant for camping! Highly recommended - clean, tide, safe.

Whangaroa motor camp - Dave is a top bloke, more scallops than you can eat. Last time we were there he kept feeding us lobster!

[KiwiKat]

Otaki Forks (DOC) is an awesome place to stop off. Safe but secluded, safe swimming and a lot of different tramping tracks. A really nice ride, about 15mins off the beaten track heading inland from Otaki, SH1 Horowhenua. Heaps of camping bays. Toilets.

[swbarnett]

All Top10 parks are brillant for camping! Highly recommended - clean, tide, safe.
They're all by the sea?

[Blackbird]

All Top10 parks are brillant for camping! Highly recommended - clean, tide, safe.

Whangaroa motor camp - Dave is a top bloke, more scallops than you can eat. Last time we were there he kept feeding us lobster!

+1 - they're great. Google their website as they are pretty well distributed round the country.

[MarkH]

They're all by the sea?

Hehe, I am sure many/most would be - this is NZ after all.

[Tank]

Hehe, I am sure many/most would be - this is NZ after all.

He was taking the piss about my typo.

[Monamie]

Opunake camping ground is great and also the one before Taupo...Motuoapa. Very safe for kids too if you want to take them!!:yes: Both right next to the sea or lake.:woohoo:

[MarkH]

He was taking the piss about my typo.

Hence my "hehe" - I realised he was being funny about the "tide" instead of "tidy".

[Lucy]

With summer coming up there are going to be a lot of bikers wanting to travel and camp out in safety.

Where are some of your favourite overnight camping spots?
Where should bikers stay away from? :soon:

You can camp at our Backpackers in Raetihi! We love bikes! Also not too far if you don't mind twisty gravel, is Ruatiti Doc campground at the Ruatiti Domain which is really nice.

[trustme]

Kaurarenga Valley just out of Thames . DOC camp so only longdrops but a great spot

[phantom]

We often camp at Totara Reserve in the lovely Pohangina Valley. Facilities fairly basic but being rebuilt after flooding

[Patrick]

Contact DOC (Dept of Conservation) they have great grounds around the place. One of theirs is at Whananaki - nice twisty road to get to it too:Punk::whistle:

Whananaki is north, past Whangarei, past Hikurangi and then turn right.... NIce east coast beach, clean water, clean sand, clean camp ground... They put a band on the back of a flat deck for new years too...

[Fatt Max]

Martins Bay just past Warkworth is a great place to camp. Safe beach, cool people and a really tidy beach. Great spot for heading out to Matakana and Goat Island and there is always the Puhoi Tavern on the door step.
We usually get out there at least twice a year and always chill out once we hit the place. One tip though is to avoid the beachfront sections cost if a NE wind blows through there, you will be the first biker in space.
Also Tank is 100% right about TopTen, Ive stayed in Kerikeri and Taupo and both were great.
Take care, ride safe and eat pies

[Usarka]

If you dont mind a bit of gravel riding, waikawau bay top of coromandel penisula is mint outside peak periods.

[jtzzr]

Stay away from The Top 10 holiday Park in Hastings around the end of March , there is a softball tournament down there for 2 days , and if you stay there, some drunk slightly over-weight Maori guy will start asking about your ride , how you got there , which way , blah blah , but the sounds are good , and the booze flows.:whistle::whistle:

[CookMySock]

Thread bump - 'tis the camping season!


Kaurarenga Valley just out of Thames . DOC camp so only longdrops but a great spotSp? "Kauaeranga" ?

Anyone else been here? How much gravel road to the camp? Looking for somewhere to go bike camping with the kid on the weekend.

Thanks.
Steve

[Pedrostt500]

If you are going around East Cape stop at Anaura bay Camp, about an hour north of Gisborne, if you are there in the 10 or so days after christmas my mate Pete runs a Cafe on the Beach, out of his house truck "Pete's Palace", Good Coffee Good food.

[trustme]

Thread bump - 'tis the camping season!

Sp? "Kauaeranga" ?

Anyone else been here? How much gravel road to the camp? Looking for somewhere to go bike camping with the kid on the weekend.

Thanks.
Steve

Easy gravel for 5 km to Doc headquaters & there is a a camp site opposite with a swimming hole, my little girl loves it , usually heaps of kids & ' er in doors ' has no probs doing it on her Gpx 250. Take food etc with you as there is no shop after Thames

[Oakie]

All Top10 parks are brillant for camping! Highly recommended - clean, tide, safe.

Pretty much what I was going to say...and there are a large number of them.

[CookMySock]

Easy gravel for 5 km to Doc headquaters & there is a a camp site opposite with a swimming hole, my little girl loves it , usually heaps of kids & ' er in doors ' has no probs doing it on her Gpx 250. Take food etc with you as there is no shop after ThamesThanks bro. How far is it back to Thames? We were looking at travelling light, which usually means takeaways.

Steve

[ynot slow]

Onaero just north of New Plymouth,quieter than Urenui(just up the road)and quite a few caravans reside permanently.

[crazyhorse]

Tokomaru Bay - East Coast NI :woohoo:

[trustme]

thanks bro. How far is it back to thames? We were looking at travelling light, which usually means takeaways.

Steve

10/12 km, They have fireplaces spread around & firewood for sale at the DOC H'Quaters for toasted marshmellows, ya gotta fill in the evening somehow.