CampgroundHidden gem
Waikawau Bay campsite (DOC)
Colville, Waikato
A DOC beach campsite on a long sandy beach, with 12 powered sites for campervans.
- Price
- NZ$18 adult, NZ$9 child per night non-powered (powered from NZ$21 adult)
- Booking
- Book ahead
- Sites
- 120
A big DOC campground behind a sweeping sandy beach where dotterels and oystercatchers nest north of the camp. There are 12 powered sites for self-contained rigs with an electrical WOF, and a bushside paddock open only mid-December to mid-February.
Good to know
- Book online, essential in peak season
- Powered sites need a standard RCD caravan plug
- Beach launching is 4WD only
- Nearest dump station is 38 km away in Coromandel
- Open
- All year, book via DOC
- Getting there
- Unsealed Port Charles Road and Waikawau Beach Road, narrow in places
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
Facilities
- Powered sites
- Showers
- Toilets
- Drinking water
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