Tracking the Highway
Transit New Zealand will work with Te Araroa Waikato Trust to put an 8-kilometre track alongside the new Mercer-Longswamp Fourlaning project.
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Shania's Songline
A deal being struck with Canadian country and western singer Shania Twain will secure a 48-kilometre Te Araroa tramping route across some of the South Island's most impressive landscape.
Read moreThey’re doing our trail here.
Two walkers have now finished their Te Araroa tramp - or those parts of it open to tramping - and other groups are still pressing ahead along the route .
Read moreMangaokewa Trail open - sort of
The 15-km Mangaokewa river trail has no destination signage yet - but we've decided it's open anyway.
Read moreTe Araroa's new blood
Three new regional trusts are now helping Te Araroa Trust get the New Zealand track in place.
Read moreThe last picture of Michael Johnson
Te Araroa tramper Eric Martinot met and photographed the English tramper Michael Johnson in the Dart River Valley, March 12.
Read moreBolger opens Rangiriri-Huntly trail
Jim Bolger opens trail
The Rt Hon Jim Bolger opened a new 12 kilometre section of the proposed New Zealand-long walking trail - Te Araroa - on Saturday March 6.
Te Araroa Summer Newsletter now available
Te Araroa Summer Newsletter. Read the inside story of the Queen's Chain. See progress reports on Te Araroa walkers. Click to download
- 680 kb PDF.
