No images? Click here
Tēnā koe
Join our online trailmakers hui on Thursday 12 November to hear Belinda Crisp, Trail Manager at Nelson Tasman Cycle Trails Trust, describe a problem many trail groups will recognise. The June 2025 floods destroyed the trail between Wakefield and Wai-iti, and one option to reinstate it is a short, unformed legal road that runs through several farms. The road is public land held in trust, and it already exists, but the adjoining landowners oppose a trail there. Belinda will explain what issues the trust is weighing, what the adjoining landowners are worried about, and how the trust is trying to find a workable way forward.
- Topic: When a legal road isn't an easy road
- Date: Thursday 12 November 2026
- Time: 12 noon (link will be open from 11.45am)
If you’re planning, building or maintaining a trail, come and share your own experience.
This session will be an interactive session — we welcome people to share your local experiences and ask questions.
Please pass this invite along to anyone who might be interested.
Hei konā mai,
Stephen Day
Communications Manager
Add your track to Plan My Walk
Plan My Walk is an excellent tool for finding the tracks you want to walk. It hosts over 1,800 tracks, including short walks, day walks and overnight tramps.
We can host the GIS and track description information for local community groups and trail trusts that do not have their own GIS capability. You need to provide us with a description of the track you maintain, plus contact details and a commitment to inform us of any changes in the track’s status or safety information walkers need to be aware of.
We will host all that information in our database, and Mountain Safety Council will automatically pull it through to appear on Plan My Walk.
Once we host the information, we can also share it with you as a map and track description that you can embed on your website.
To share your track with Plan My Walk, complete this survey form.
Trailmakers Map - Ngā Kaihanga Ara
This map is designed for volunteer trail groups or individuals creating and maintaining trails in their local area.
What are the benefits to your trail group of joining the map
- You can be visible to other trail groups in your area and across Aotearoa
- You can contact other groups about their experiences on projects that may be similar to yours
- Potential volunteers and donors can see groups in their region. (Our regional field advisors occasionally encourage potential volunteers to look at the map.)
- Government organisations such as councils and the Department of Conservation can more easily contact you.
- Adding your details to the map is easy (and free)
The map provides a brief description of trailmaker groups and their work, indicates their locations, and offers guidance on how to contact them most effectively. This map is specifically for community volunteer groups that are building or maintaining trails and outdoor access.
Trailmaker network members frequently want to contact each other. This map enables people to connect with other community trailmaker groups and to see where they sit geographically within a national network.
Get support
Outdoor Access Commission regional field advisors are a great first port of call for trail-building questions. They have an incredible wealth of knowledge and will point you in the right direction.
Our website also has a lot of information. If you can not find a resource you want, please contact me.
