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Paparoa National Park

National parks are established to preserve natural and historic features in a near original state, while facilitating recreational activities such as tramping, walking, skiing, climbing, caving and kayaking. Mountain bikes are not permitted within national parks.   More ▶︎

The Ballroom is an overhanging cliff, carved by a past bend of the Fox River into a a broad curve. There is ample space under the overhang.   More ▶︎

Today, Nick Smith, Environment Minister, announced plans to construct New Zealand's tenth Great Walk as a memorial to the 29 miners who died in the Pike River Mine Disaster of November 2010. The Pike29 Memorial Track will be 45km in ...   More ▶︎