New Zealand road map

To make the most of your New Zealand camper van vacation, you'll need a good New Zealand road map. There are some free road maps available on the internet (see our download centre), but they're not nearly detailed enough to help you with your travel planning and they are of little use when touring New Zealand. On the first day of our arrival in New Zealand, we walked into a bookshop to make a choice from all the road maps we found there.

We wanted our map to:

• have both large and smaller scale maps of the North and the South Island
• contain city maps of at least Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill
• be easy to handle
• give clear directions for use
• contain information about travel distances
• have an extensive index, including even the smallest villages
• not only show the main roads, but also the regional ones, and, if possible, even the forest roads
• be up to date

• It had all the things we looked for, and even some more! We particularly liked its spiral binding, that makes this map very easy to handle. And it had a great index, not only of the cities, towns, and villages, but also of the national parks, forests, tracks and skifields.
• It not only has road indexes of Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Invercargill, and Dunedin, but also of Hamilton, Napier-Hastings, Picton, Palmerston North, Taupo, Mt. Manganui, Rotorua and Queenstown, to name just a few.
• A great section of the atlas has a 1:500.000 scale, but there are also some regional enlargements on a 1:175.000, 1:275.000 and 1:350.000 scale in this road map of New Zealand. The city centre maps are all on a 1:35.000 scale; whith those you can easily find your way around.

Tip:
Another good choice might be the Driving Scenic New Zealand Book. This book features 52 color maps covering all of New Zealand's best scenic driving routes. Each of these routes is accompanied by an interesting guide to all of the touring highlights covered on the map.