0 100 km Off the Beaten Track e# 0 50 miles Cape Reinga KARIKARI PENINSULA North Cape Blissfully undeveloped, Karikari Great Aupouri Exhibition Peninsula’s sun-kissed highlights Peninsula Bay include Tokerau Beach, Maitai Bay (a KARIKARI •# great sheltered spot for swimming) PENINSULA and remote Puheke Beach: a long, Cavalli Islands SOUTH Kaitāia•# Aroha PACIFIC windswept stretch of snow-white Tauroa Island Cape OCEAN Kerikeri •# Brett sand dunes forming Karikari’s Peninsula •# Russell northern edge. Kaikohe •# Opononi •# KAIMAI MAMAKU •#Whangārei FOREST PARK Dargaville •# This 75km-long, forest-wreathed Tasman Little Sea Barrier Great mountain range provides a wild Island Barrier POUTO Island backdrop to the Bay of Plenty, •#Wellsford POINT •# separating it from the fertile plains of •# Kaipara Warkworth Coromandel the Waikato. Harbour Peninsula Mercury Helensville•# Islands Coromandel •# Town Auckland •# •#Whitianga POUTO POINT Explore the dune lakes and lonely Ramarama•# •#Thames lighthouse on the remote spit that Bay of forms the northern head of the Plenty Kaipara Harbour. KAIMAI MAMAKU •#Huntly #÷ Whakaari FOREST PARK (White Cape Hicks Hamilton •#Mt Maunganui Island) Runaway Bay Raglan •# •# Tauranga•# •# •# East Te Kaha Cape Urawhitiki Whakatāne Lake PUREORA FOREST PARK Point •# •# Ruatoria Rotorua •# Ōpōtiki Rotorua •# Hike to the summits of Mt Pureora Waitomo •# Caves LAKE WAIKAREITI•# and Mt Titiraupenga, or cycle the Te Urewera Ngarupupu National two-day Timber Trail through the Point Mt Titiraupenga The vast mountainous wilderness of R Park •# regenerating forest. R Te Urewera is the mist-shrouded SUGAR LOAF PUREORA Mt Pureora LAKE #÷ home of the Tuhoe people. This FOREST PARK •#Taupō WAIKAREITI ISLANDS Lake •# secluded•# lake is reached by an hour’s Taupō SUGAR LOAF ISLANDS MARINE PARK LAKE #÷ walk through dense native bush from •# •# New ROTOKURA •# WHIRINAKI MARINE PARK Plymouth Wairoa Lake Waikaremoana. Mt Ngauruhoe TE PUA-A-TĀNE •# Take a guided kayak trip or boat tour Mt Taranaki R R (Mt Egmont) Cape R CONSERVATION PARK to these rugged islets off New Egmont •# Stratford Mahia Mt Ruapehu Lake Hawke Peninsula Plymouth, home to 10,000 sea birds Opunake•# Moawhango Bay •# Waiouru and a colony of NZ fur seals. •#Hāwera Napier •# Cape WHIRINAKI •# Kidnappers TE PUA-A-TĀNE Hastings LAKE ROTOKURA CONSERVATION PARK Whanganui •# Waipukurau•# Hike through podocarp forest to Hidden within the southern fringes of Tasman Tongariro National Park, this tapu Sea remote canyons, waterfalls, streams •# Dannevirke SOUTH and lookouts, or tackle the 16km (sacred) lake is accessed by a Palmerston •# •# Woodville PACIFIC mountain bike track. kilometre-long walk lined with ancient North OCEAN beech trees. Cape •# Levin Turnagain CASTLEPOINT REMUTAKA CYCLE TRAIL Kāpiti Island While it’s easily reached by windy It might start at Wellington Harbour, Marlborough Upper •# CASTLEPOINT Sounds Lower Hutt country roads, few travellers make it but this three-day ride traverses •# Hutt to this obscure stretch of Wairarapa isolated hill country before landing at •# Lake •# Picton #_ Wairarapa coast. Take time to enjoy the beach the little-visited western end of WELLINGTON •# and hike to the lighthouse and a vast Palliser Bay. REMUTAKA Palliser limestone cave. Bay CYCLE TRAIL.