Explore the outdoors with DOC maps, offering detailed insights into various locations, tracks, and recreational opportunities in New Zealand.

Adult (18+ years): $10 per night Youth (5–17 years): $5 per night Child/Infant (0–4 years): free Before you go, buy 1 Standard Hut Ticket (blue for adults, yellow for youth) for each night's stay. Put ...

You can hunt fallow deer and feral pigs in the Blue Mountains Recreational Hunting Area. The area has been divided into 23 hunting blocks which are balloted monthly from February through to the end of ...

This hut is managed by the Greater Wellington Backcountry Network. Alpha Hut is located at a height of 1116 m, just below the bushline in the eastern Tararua Forest Park. It is one of the traditional ...

The best time to hike this track is from November to April. It has persistent snow and ice in winter and spring, which requires winter alpine skills and equipment. No dogs. Other pets on conservation ...

Poulter River Track is one of the few mountain bike tracks in a national park. It has great scenery, some challenges and a good hut for an overnight stay. From Mt White Road, follow the obvious track ...

In an open letter to the world and on digital billboards, which went live overnight in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, DOC revealed it has “counted” all of nature and the total is 695 billion.

Learn your first ten forest birds. The birds in this first course are ones that are most frequently recorded in forest bird surveys using the five minute bird count method. Work through each section ...

Biosecurity helps prevent damage by animal pests, weeds, didymo, and diseases like kauri dieback. The conservation status of our species is assessed according to their risk of extinction.

Learn about animals and plants in Aotearoa, including many you can’t find anywhere else in the world.

No dogs. Other pets on conservation land rules. From the car park, follow the walking track for a few minutes through dense podocarp/hardwood forest before emerging onto a viewing platform. From here ...