{"id":248292,"date":"2026-01-23T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:11","slug":"karangahake-gorge-and-dickey-flat-campsite-closed-after-storm-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248292\/","title":{"rendered":"Karangahake Gorge and Dickey Flat campsite closed after storm damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cKarangahake Gorge has been particularly hard hit. You might have seen videos of water rushing through the tunnel of the Windows Walk. It\u2019ll take some time to get the tracks and facilities to a condition where people can safely visit,\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDickey Flat campsite at the southern end of Karangahake Gorge is closed until further notice, and this isn\u2019t a booked site, so we\u2019re really asking people to use common sense and check access and conditions before they head out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matat\u0101 campsite, closer to Whakat\u0101ne, was closed until Tuesday, and booked visitors had been informed.<\/p>\n

Although other DoC tracks across Bay of Plenty might remain formally open, Sutton urged visitors to be alert to the possibility of landslides, washouts, or downed trees. Damage should be reported to DoC on 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468).<\/p>\n

\u201cStay safe this weekend, and we look forward to welcoming you back into these spaces when we can.\u201d <\/p>\n

The DoC website<\/a> has alerts about tracks, huts and campsites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKarangahake Gorge has been particularly hard hit. You might have seen videos of water rushing through the tunnel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[542,74,95,13916,9218,682,15357,16653,8908,5201,15293,22510,144691,15974,8999,9639,121901,33443,84460,111,43,139,69,1562,381,13672,673,1961,9202,9717,4767],"class_list":["post-248292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-access","tag-after","tag-and","tag-asked","tag-before","tag-being","tag-campsite","tag-campsites","tag-check","tag-closed","tag-continued","tag-damage","tag-dickey","tag-emergency","tag-extensive","tag-flat","tag-gorge","tag-heading","tag-karangahake","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plenty","tag-region","tag-state","tag-storm","tag-this","tag-tracks","tag-visitors","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}