Your stories are our stories. Take the photos, and tell us all the small stories as well as the big ones. Changing to 3 issues a year.

Tucked away on a side road off SH5 (near Reporoa), is this free hot pool.

Camping the Kiwi Way brings you the positive side of camping in NZ.

A response to a legislative challenge has brought us the compact, front-opening BlackMOA™ Cassette Toilet

The design behind Fix’n’Rail supports a circular economy by giving new life to portable toilets that may otherwise end up in landfills.

Due out late October, the Fix’n’Rail is a heavy duty sliding rail and secure bracket that lets you slide a portable toilet in and out of its storage area

What is in store for us this winter.

Kaitoke saw over 700 campers on Waitangi weekend.

Whadiya know. Couple of mins later we got heat.

I could live like this forever.

Campground, Opoutere, Stop and Stay, Coromandel

It was a very wet, rainy camp with my dog in a dense bush.

I love the freedom that carrying an ultralight tent provides, it empowers you to camp wherever your legs can take you.

How do you prepare your coffee while wild camping? It’s fresh ground beans in an aeropress for me!

Understanding how to visualise the contour lines represent may help you to determine the terrain ahead.

Really feeling autumny now! Whakaipo Bay, DOC camp at Taupo.

The seven requirements

When transporting a new-to-you caravan, it is essential to stop 15 minutes into the trip and check the temperature of the wheels with your hand.

I’ve just had a lovely long weekend away at Lake Ōhau in my little Wanda.

Okay , listen up, this is new. When travelling the North Island, Taihape has become the perfect stopover place.

We started our camping trips over this past summer with a then 3yo and 4yo (and two large dogs).

Download the crossword

Can you fill in the blanks?

Can you place all the national parks?

Fill in the blanks: South Island Lakes.

We love our little caravan not just for holidays but for other emergency get-a-ways, should the situation call for it.

Each of the underlined words below should be recorded into the list on the left. Place each word according to the number of letters in the word. Then transfer the words into the Fill-it-in-grid.

From North and South Islands see how many you recognise.

Here’s a word search relating to camping in a tent.

No matter the age of your children, there’s always the car journey and the inevitable “are we there yet?” and “how much longer?”