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New Zealand
> National Parks > The Long Pathway
New Zealand is a nation of
trampers, partly because of the country’s extensive network of walking tracks
is often the only way to see remote, beautiful places.
Te Araroa, the Long Pathway, is
a project to create a walk traversing New Zealand from top to bottom (or
bottom to top!) – from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
The idea for Te Araroa was first
proposed by the Federated Mountain Clubs in the mid 1970s, but several
attempts to get the project off the ground failed and the idea languished
for two decades. That changed in 1994, when the
Te Araroa Trust was
formed by a group of prominent New Zealanders including Sir Edmund Hillary.
The Trust designed a route and
marshalled local and central government bodies to help create the public
access needed. It has also built parts of the pathway, including a 15km
track through Northland’s Herekino forest in 2003. It’s hoped the entire
Long Pathway will be in place by 2008.
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