Trail · Opened 2011
Te Araroa
Cape Reinga to Bluff
The Long Pathway: ninety-mile beaches, volcano country, and the length of Aotearoa on foot.
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Chronicler
Still at Cape Reinga
The road to Auckland is 300 miles. Te Rerenga Wairua. The lighthouse, and spirits departing for Hawaiiki.
The road
Cape Reinga
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Te Rerenga Wairua. The lighthouse, and spirits departing for Hawaiiki.
Auckland
300 mi
The city on the isthmus. The trail does not go around it.
Tongariro
620 mi
Volcanic crossing. Red crater, emerald lakes, and alpine weather.
Wellington
1,000 mi
The ferry to the South Island. The first country is walked.
Queenstown
1,500 mi
Lakes and beech forest. The Southern Alps keep the weather.
Bluff
1,864 mi
Stirling Point. The signpost, the sea, the other end of the country.
Te Araroa Trust, ~1,864 miles