Visit New Zealand's largest known living kauri tree, Tāne Mahuta, on this short, easy walk suitable for buggies and children. It is open 9 am to 5 pm daily. This wheelchair and buggy accessible short ...

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

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. DOC has ...

Note, toilet can be inaccessible in winter. There is a daily radio check-in and weather update to all the alpine huts in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park. This is at 4:45 pm. There are instructions in the ...

This walk gently winds its way through subalpine grasslands and scrub to the Mueller Glacier moraine wall. The track passes through a landscape that was formed in 1913 when a stream cut through from ...

The Rainbow Road is remarkable for the landscape’s transition from wide tussock lands and screes along the Clarence River to craggy, beech‑covered mountains in the Wairau catchment. You must complete ...