Te Tatau-Pounamu Wilderness Area

Classic trips Te Tatau-Pounamu Wilderness Area

View Larger Image Oturere valley, enroute to the Te Tatau-Pounamu Wilderness Area. Photo: Pam Rowe, Howick Tramping Club

Classic trips, Interactive topo maps, downloadable Geographx poster maps, history and more…

Over time, FMC is building these pages to show you the classic trips you can do in these Wilderness Areas as well as understand their history, values and how to protect them

Wanderings through the wilderness: images from Te Tatau-Pounamu Wilderness Area, by Hazel Phillps

The flat, wide expanses of easygoing terrain from the saddle near point 1673, above the Mangatawai catchment

The upper Mangahouhounui basin, an ideal area for camping and easily accessed from the back of Blue Lake

Descending into the upper reaches of the Mangahouhounui basin

Looking down the Mangahouhounui Stream from high up in the wilderness area

An 18m waterfall in the upper reaches of the Mangahouhounui

But in the meantime, you can:

Learn about the historical and legal context of Wilderness Areas in NZ on www.fmc.org.nz
Download a free, high resolution PDF map of the Te Tatau-Pounamu Wilderness Area by Geographx. These maps were funded by FMC are available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike licence.
View the boundaries of all NZ’s Wilderness Areas and Public conservation land on Topo50 maps using FMC’s Wilderness Area Mapping Tool

If you have suggestions for classic trips in this Wilderness Area, and/or photos which we can publish to accompany them, please contact us.