{"id":648483,"date":"2026-11-02T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648483\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:52:10","slug":"old-camper-fit-out-dumped-at-central-otago-freedom-camping-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648483\/","title":{"rendered":"Old camper fit-out dumped at Central Otago freedom camping spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has left what appears to be an old caravan or camper fit-out at the freedom camping site in Lowburn &#8211; including the kitchen sink. <\/p>\n<p>Land and Information New Zealand (LINZ) shared an image online from one of the four freedom camping sites it manages at Lake Dunstan in Central Otago. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Renovating the camper? Great. Dumping the old fit-out at Lowburn? Not so great,&#8221; it wrote. <\/p>\n<p>A LINZ spokesperson said the group tended to see more rubbish being dumped in areas such as Lowburn heading into the busier summer period. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a community space for everyone to enjoy, not somewhere to leave unwanted gear and pass the clean-up bill on to the public,&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please take your rubbish with you and dispose of it properly. And if you see someone dumping rubbish, report it to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone has left what appears to be an old caravan or camper fit-out at the freedom camping site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1080,273,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-648483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-environment","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648483","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=648483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}