In the April Issue...

Wilderness profiles the seven latest additions to the DoC estate: Conservation Parks. Recreation opportunities abound in these areas of South Island high country.

While these areas provide excellent recreation opportunities, Phillip Melchior investigates whether DoC is equipped to manage this land, which, along with National Parks and other reserves, makes up almost 50 per cent of South Island land.

We also look at how national parks in Australia, the UK and the US are managed.

Join Alistair Hall on a tough mountain bike ride over the Coromandel Peninsula’s Coromandel Walkway, experience a remote crossing of the Alps with Geoff Spearpoint, check out the Craigieburn Range in a 3D map and read about great walks in the Remarkables, Severn Valley, Kamai-Mamaku Forest Park, and Tongariro National Park.

The review in April is on walking poles: excellent hill aids that will help you walk faster, further and for longer.

 The April issue is in stores now.