Off roaders lead charge to new All Terrain Park

Rotorua's Geyserland 4WD club is set to make use of the new TECT All Terrain Park.
The club is holding its annual Runva Tough Truck Challenge at the park next month.
This is the first time the club has used the park, having held the event in Mamaku last year.
Event organiser Dan Waugh said the club decided to have the challenge at TECT All Terrain Park because the layout of the park means they can have spectators and the old logging tracks through the forest are good for driving on.
"Basically we look for difficult muddy terrain we can get the vehicles through where they don't mind us ripping up the tracks," Mr Waugh said.
The challenge involves about 20 competitors from around the North Island in their 4WD trucks doing various time-trial events including going through tough terrain, winching the vehicles out of tricky spots, winching up almost vertical walls and high-speed track races.
Mr Waugh said spectators could watch the vehicles at various stages of the event.
Club members have been at the park for the past few weekends getting the area ready for the competition, clearing and marking tracks.
Mr Waugh said he was excited to be having the event at the TECT All Terrain Park.
"The park's a great facility. It looks like it's going to be a really neat facility for the Bay of Plenty."
TECT All Terrain Park manager Ric Balfour said other clubs and organisations had been using the park as well, and there was potential for new clubs to use it.
Mr Balfour said clubs wanting to use the park for an activity must work with other clubs and do on-site work to prepare the area, but the Western Bay of Plenty District Council would help out as much as it could.
"[The park has] got such potential, all the groundwork has been done."
Mr Balfour said some clubs were creating exclusive areas for their activities, and if people wanted to take part they needed to join the club, but mountain biking and horse riding, and walking tracks were open to the public.
The New Zealand Fire Service has been bringing its urban firefighters to learn how to fight forest fires and local schools and clubs such as the YMCA and Pyes Pa School have been using the park for trips and camping.
Rotorua Orienteering Club is planning an event and Rotorua Boys' High School is also planning an off-road run later in the year.
The Runva Tough Truck Challenge is on July 16 and 17 at TECT All Terrain Park.