Natural features

Te Paki Giant Sand Dunes

New Zealand Northland

Te Paki Giant Sand Dunes
Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Huge golden sand dunes, some more than 100 m high, near the top of the North Island, where you can climb up and sandboard down at speed. Boards can be hired from a van at the car park in the main season. Climbing back up is hard work, so take water.


The dunes are beside the Te Paki Stream, the northern access to Ninety Mile Beach, about 20 minutes' drive south of Cape Reinga. Many Cape Reinga bus tours stop here for sandboarding.

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