Kiwi Summer 2026 is here! Find all the up-to-date camper overnight stays while travelling around New Zealand.
Legal New Zealand camping locations on your iPhone™ or iPad™. Camping NZ features Offline Maps, so you can find great camping locations, free of restrictions from NZ's poor and expensive internet. This app gives you Freedom!
• The official NZ camping map - in association with local communities and councils, the Responsible Camping Forum, Department of Conservation, i-SITE and Tourism NZ.
• Full offline capability with maps and detailed information.
• Backed by over 100,000+ independent Rankers reviews.
• Over 1,500+ campsites included and over 6,000 points of interest across Aotearoa.
• Legal camping locations - free and paid - if it shows on this app then you're welcome to stay.
• From remote freedom camping sites to full-facility holiday parks.
• Filter for Top Ranked holiday parks, DOC and free sites based on thousands of Rankers reviews.
• Full details, photos, rules and pricing for each camping location.
• Includes public and holiday park dump stations.
• Hundreds of activity deals across the country.
• Traveller's essentials like fuel, supermarkets, playgrounds and free water.
• Shows all i-SITE, DOC visitor centres and regional tourism hubs.
• Includes activities and walking tracks with extensive details including reviews, Maori and colonial history, geology, flora and fauna and more.
• Includes even more point of interests - quality free WiFi, supermarkets etc.
• Find local goodies like markets, roadside stalls and farm gate produce.
• Bookmark your favourites to the map.
• Improve the app with your photos and reviews.
• Book campsites directly from the app.
• No creepy tracking - we don't share or sell your data.
• Proudly designed and developed in Aotearoa NZ by the Rankers crew.
Kia Ora to all the nice people who are using this web platform here are my own personal views and hope that they help you navigate this beautiful country, as very few of those lonely planet and trip advisor apps will.If you come here totally as a novice as I was way back in 2017 with a iPhone 6s and none of the back home phone providers would help, we used this app to pin point how close we were to an intended camp ground and just home in to the location it was showing especially in the South Island. With no carrier signals available.Please do upload the off line map and thank Rankers for updating them ever so often. Enjoy!
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Travelbit
We just returned from three weeks traveling the South Island in a rented camper van. This app was beyond helpful for finding all the things that you need to find when you’re in an area you don’t know. We were mainly Freedom camping and occasional parks. Helpful with both of these + dump stations., etc.,etc. It’s the only one you need!!Thanks Rankers-our trip was so much easier because of you!
content is amazing, app needs work
00742668842
Indispensable app for road tripping around New Zealand. But,Some things were very broken for me though. Adding reviews seemed like they never posted. This thing would constantly tell me to download maps for places I was nowhere near. And when I moved to the South Island from the north island there was NO way to delete old downloaded maps (they take a ton of space). It’s also very unclear when you’re using offline maps. For the foreigners, please delineate on the map where/what these areas are.
Lifesaver...
Cap'n Droo
Unbelievably helpful app! We have been freedom camping around the North Island and this app has been a lifesaver time and time again. Well worth the download for offline mode as it works well and even keeps up with your location on an iPhone even if it is a foreign phone with no cell service.
Updated all the bundled campsite and activities information.
Version 2.23.6
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