DOC campsite
Verns Camp
Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park • East Coast
Basic CampsiteNon-bookable
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- About
- This is a good place to stop for lunch, with a shelter, fireplace and water.
- Facilities
- Fire pit/place for campfires (except in fire bans)
- Non-powered/tent sites
- Water from stream
- Toilets - non-flush
- Toilets
- Water supply
- Activities
- Walking and tramping
- Dogs
- Dogs with a DOC permit only. Contact closest DOC office to get a permit.
- Landscape
- Forest, Rivers and lakes
- Access
- Foot
About this campsite
The camp is on the site of an old track cutter’s camp, this is a good place to stop for lunch. There is a newly erected picnic shelter with a fireplace. Water is available both from a tank and from the stream at the southern end of the clearing.
Just past the shelter are striking pumice cliffs.
Fees and bookings
Fees
Free.
Getting there
It takes about 2 hours 15 min from the River Road carpark to get to Verns Camp.
Location
NZTM2000: E1919987, N5707638
Nearby
Weather
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