What's your favourite camping area in New Zealand?

2:00 PM Friday Nov 18, 2011

The campground at Aroha Island in the Bay of Islands is run by a charitable trust. Photo / Northern Advocate

A lot of campgrounds may have closed, but New Zealand is still full of little-known, wonderful places to go camping.

What's your favourite camping area in New Zealand - and why? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

Kerry Harper () | 03:48PM Friday, 18 Nov 2011

Tangimoana Beach for a blast of North Island west coast. Beachcombing, driftwood hut building, surfcasting, roaring down the beach on a motorbike if you have one, nature walk, river. Get away from the mental city and breathe in the west!

Don Saunders () | 04:35PM Friday, 18 Nov 2011

Otamure Bay north of Whananaki on the east coast about 45 minutes drive of Whangarei. Great beach safe swimming and when the swell is up good bogey boarding for kids and adults. And idyllic pohutukawa lined beach just around the northern headland which hardly has any more than one group of people there at any one time. For boaties close to some good fishing spots

westie (New Zealand) (New Zealand) | 07:09AM Saturday, 19 Nov 2011

There are a number of favourite camping grounds that we used to go to for a number of years when I was a child. These are: Coopers Beach, Hot Water Beach and a place that probably now no longer exists called White Sands Motor Camp down in the beautiful Bay of Plenty. The wonderful camping holidays are memories I will always cherish. We are so lucky here in NZ in that we have fantastic coastal scenery that has the mixture, and education, of being out in the middle of nowhere and yet with so much near by.