Heaphy Track all set to completely reopen this year

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Sunrise from the Heaphy Track's Brown Hut. Photo: Robert (Bic) Bicknell, Creative Commons
A wrap of the biggest stories and best writing about the outdoors from New Zealand and around the world. One of our most popular Great Walks, the Heaphy Track, has been closed as a thru-hike for a year now, after storms washed away the famous Heaphy River swingbridge. But there’s light at the end of […]
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