Tongariro, Te Urewera & Central North Island

This is the Tongariro, Te Urewera & Central North Island chapter from Lonely Planet's Hiking & Tramping in New Zealand guidebook.

Few regions offer such an overwhelming sense of raw wilderness as the North Island’s central strip of volcanoes and dense forest. For trampers, Tongariro calls like a siren, drawing tens of thousands of people each year across the track that’s almost universally acclaimed as the best day walk in the country.

• loop New Zealand’s most spectacular volcano on the Tongariro Northern Circuit
• maps
• follow a remote circuit of the bluff-lined Lake Waikaremoana
• transport
• tramp through a volcanic wonderland on Tongariro Alpine Crossing
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Tongariro National Park, Tongariro Northern Circuit, Tongariro Alpine Crossing, Te Urewera, Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk.