Adventure NZ

Planning ‘the big trip’
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Keen to do your own big trip? Regular NZ4WD contributor Gary Cooper offers his...
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Steve Beston, NZ 4x4 Treks
Thursday, 17 August 2017
The man behind NZ 4x4 Treks, Steve Beston, learned his 4WD skills the hard way, here and...
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West Coast Explorer
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
From the East Coast to the West, NZ Adventure’s 4WD West Coast Explorer takes you from...
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Tangiteroria Trek
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Rain affected play (mostly in a good way!) at this year’s Tangiteroria Farm Tagalong in Northland...
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A South Island Odyssey
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
My partner Kristina and I are both mountain enthusiasts. Because we live in the Czech...
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High Country Journeys’ tour options
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Last season High Country Journeys, which had just been taken over by Ranfurly-based...
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Slippery when wet
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
The biennial is usually held in hot, dry late summer conditions. Not this year. Normally held...
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CZ Club Truck Challenge Rnd 6 Final
CZ Club Truck Challenge Rnd 6 Final
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
The 2016-17 series of the Club Truck Challenge (CTC) has been the best ever, and we finished...
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Southern Traverse
Southern Traverse
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Again, keen to share our love of the South Island in our adopted country with other like-minded...
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Hokianga Safari 2017
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
It had been three years since the last Hokianga Safari (the 2015 event was cancelled due...
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Cam Vernon’s Nissan Safari work truck
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Ramarama (Auckland) contractor Cam Vernon’s hard-driving Nissan Safari keeps popping up...
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Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek
Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
This year’s Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek was a one-day event held on Saturday March...
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A West Coast weekend
A West Coast weekend
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
The Nelson 4 Wheel Drive Club started 2017 with a very quiet January but come February we...
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Festive season escape
Thursday, 16 March 2017
We left Wellington early for a run over the Rimutaka Hills and up SH2 to Eketahuna...
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Sean Craig’s ’83 M-B G-Wagon
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
That's an interesting looking G-Wagon Sean. Let's start this off with the basics like specific model...
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Operation Sterling
Operation Sterling
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
It had been a long time since David Coxon’s last visit to the army land at Waiouru, and... 
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Favourite 4WD trips – Murray Taylor
Favourite 4WD trips – Murray Taylor
Wednesday, 07 December 2016
Questions. The Editor of this fine journal is full of them. For instance...
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Magadan on the menu
Magadan on the menu
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
New Zealand Self Drive Tour operator Overland Journeys have just completed another season of...
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Like Scotland on steroids
Like Scotland on steroids
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The idea was simple. Go to New Zealand, get a truck and travel around living inside it...
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High Country River run pic
High Country river run
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Being a member of the Southern Trail Blazers 4WD club of Gore has given me the opportunity to...
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99 Rivers pic One river the easy way
99 Rivers - Summer fun in the south
Thursday, 22 September 2016
99 Rivers would be a group experience first and foremost, focusing as much on the people...
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High Country Heritage
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Asking “how four-wheel-drive a four-wheel-drive trip will be?” was an auspicious start for this...
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Recovery Equipment
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Greg has four Toyota Land Cruisers, two 80 Series vehicles and two 100 series units. The...
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Rally Tours’ Silk Road 4x4 expedition
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
On July 15 this year a three-4WD Rally Tours NZ Silk Road 4x4 expedition convoy arrived in Vladivostok, Russia’s far eastern seaport after being on the road for 75 days and covered 19,000km passing...
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Date with the Dakar
Monday, 15 September 2014
Way back when, ‘back in the day’ as the kids’ say, Kiwi country singer John Hore (later to become better known as John Grenell) adopted a song by Australian counterpart Geoff Mack call, ‘I’ve Been...
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