CampgroundHidden gem
Canaan Downs campsite
Takaka Hill, Tasman
Basic DOC campsite on the Takaka Hill plateau, close to tracks and Harwoods Hole.
- Price
- DOC fee, check current rate
- Booking
- Book ahead
- Time to allow
- 24 hours
- Sites
- 10
Ten sites on grassy flats surrounded by beech forest. It sits at the end of a gravel road at the start of several walks to Harwoods Hole and into Kahurangi. It is cold at night, even in summer, and icy in winter.
Good to know
- Book ahead
- Bring warm layers
- Gravel road is steep and winding
- Best time
- Summer
- Open
- All year, icy in winter
- Getting there
- 11 km of steep winding gravel up Canaan Road.
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- No dogs
Facilities
- Toilets
- Drinking water
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