Visit the Raukumara Forest Park to experience one of the least developed or visited tracts of bush in the North Island. The park covers 115,000 hectares of extremely rugged bush-clad land and offers a wide variety of recreational opportunites for visitors including:

• mountain biking the scenic and challenging Otipi Road,
• the opportunity to climb Mount Hikurangi, the first place on mainland New Zealand to see the sun; and
• Grade 4 rafting on the Motu River, which is renowned for its unspoiled beauty and isolation.