Request for recommendations for camp sites and general invitation

**Rehab** · 14th December 2011, 00:01

Morning all,

I'm doing the following ride to see the olds for Xmas and then get the hell out of there again:
20th Auck - Taupo/Turangi
21st Taupo/Turangi - Wellington
22nd early ferry followed by Picton to Chch

and then the reverse from 27th - 29th with the ferry VERY early on the 28th.

1. Anyone got any recommendations for campgrounds in or near any of the above locations.
2. Anyone pointing the same way would be welcome to join for a while; pass me; wave as I go past; grab a beer and talk bikes or whatever.

Cheers in advance for the flood of replies (to 1. anyway)

**sinfull** · 14th December 2011, 06:28

You're doing SH1 ? How boring !!!!

Here's a better idea,

Auk-Ngaruawahia-Te Kuiti- Right down H3- Left down H4- Right down H43 and stay at the whangamomona hotel for the night 3 or 4 hr ride ! Be as cheap as staying at a top 10 camp site i'd say, or take a tent and pitch it where ya want (bloody freedom campers, anyone would think that was what NZers were brought up doing).

Nek mornin follow H43 out to Stratford- Right up H3 into NPlym and around the mountain H45, (for the hell of it)- down H3 to wanganui-Bulls-Then H1 to Kapiti 4 to 5 hour (6 if ya go round the mount) or into wellington if you feel you want to be closer than an Hour to the ferry !

**Maha** · 14th December 2011, 06:37

Whats that campground in or around Levin?
If you make that far at one hit, would be a nice place to saty for the night before the short no pressure ride into the ferry the next morning.

**oneofsix** · 14th December 2011, 06:40

Originally Posted by Maha

Whats that campground in in around Levin?
If you make that far at one hit, would be a nice place to saty for the night before the short no pressure ride into the ferry the next morning.

Byrons resort Otaki beach by any chance? or the Levin motorcamp http://www.levinmotorcamp.co.nz/

**PirateJafa** · 14th December 2011, 07:19

Any DOC campsite is usually a good spot.

**The Lone Rider** · 14th December 2011, 08:28

So final destination is Christchurch?

**The Pastor** · 14th December 2011, 11:04

just find a farmers paddock or large flat grass berm pitch a tent and ur done.

**Rehab** · 14th December 2011, 11:28

Originally Posted by sinfull

You're doing SH1 ? How boring !!!!

Here's a better idea,

Auk-Ngaruawahia-Te Kuiti- Right down H3- Left down H4- Right down H43 and stay at the whangamomona hotel for the night 3 or 4 hr ride ! Be as cheap as staying at a top 10 camp site i'd say, or take a tent and pitch it where ya want (bloody freedom campers, anyone would think that was what NZers were brought up doing).

Nek mornin follow H43 out to Stratford- Right up H3 into NPlym and around the mountain H45, (for the hell of it)- down H3 to wanganui-Bulls-Then H1 to Kapiti 4 to 5 hour (6 if ya go round the mount) or into wellington if you feel you want to be closer than an Hour to the ferry !

Ahem... new plan. Please see above

Been a few years since I last did that ride + I can visit 1Tonne for a looky. It was 1am when I came up with my original idea so some latitude please....

And since every camp site I've contacted thus far says "just turn up and we'll have something" I'm gonna concentrate on the roads and stop when I get tired. Or pitch my tent next to a fucked bike and wait for roadside rescue, which ever comes first. DOC or grass verge will do me.

Cheers all.