Every place to sleep in New Zealand,
and the road worth taking to it.
DOC campsites and huts, council sites and holiday parks on one map, with the fuel, water, cell coverage and gravel roads that actually decide a route. Use AI to plan the whole trip from one sentence, and to find the roads and campsites you would otherwise ride straight past. For motorbikes, 4x4s, campervans, motorhomes and loaded pushbikes.
Plan with AI · Desktop and mobile
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Not the fastest way. The best route.
Every other map routes you the quick way through. This one is built for adventure travel: it will put you on gravel, over the pass, and at a campsite you would never have found on your own.
🧭 It takes the roads other maps avoid
Prefer gravel, prefer twisty, or avoid highways, and every unsealed road is rated for what you are actually in, from large RV to bike. The back way over the range becomes a decision instead of a gamble.
🔦 It finds what you would have missed
Waterfalls, hot springs, lookouts, caves, ghost towns and backcountry huts near your line, offered as detours before you commit, and a DOC campsite or hut waiting at the end of the day.
✨ Nothing mainstream does both
Describe the trip in a sentence and get real routes back. No other mainstream map does that, none of them rate a road for your vehicle, and none of them finish the route at a bed.
Tell it what you're on. The route changes.
Six rigs, one map. The same two towns give you a different line depending on what you picked, because a six-berth motorhome and a loaded dual-sport do not fit down the same road.
Pedal or e-bike. Cycleways, rail trails and quiet back roads, never a motorway, and never the wrong way down a one-way.
Adventure or dual-sport with the panniers on. Happy on gravel and formed metal; not sent down a goat track.
Hilux, Ranger or a built 4WD. Farm and forestry tracks are fair game, and this is the usual tow vehicle.
Hiace or Transit sized. Capable of most of it, but tall and long enough that the tight stuff starts deciding the route.
Six-berth or a big coach. Graded roads only; kept off the tracks the ute is happy on.
Always routed as towing: formed metal is fine, dead ends are not, because reversing a caravan back out of one is the real risk.
Two levels, on purpose. Save the rig you usually travel in, then override it for one route without touching that default; the same person plans a gravel day and a tow-the-caravan holiday in the same month. Towing is a tick rather than a seventh option, and it changes the route on its own: length, weight, and the switchbacks you could take solo.
Towing? Take the easy road. Pick a caravan or motorhome and the app plans the gentlest road there is: main roads, no steep descents, no hairpins, even when that is a lot further. Nelson to Blenheim goes up the Wairau Valley instead of over the Whangamoa and Rai saddles: main roads at 7% or less, instead of 10% grades, tight bend after tight bend and logging trucks coming the other way. Roads signed no-caravans are avoided by rule too, 277 stretches nationwide, the Crown Range and Skippers among them. If there is no gentler road, it says so. Rather take the short way? One switch turns it off.
Plan any trip with A.I. - type in your idea and we'll give you some options
Plan with AI is where a ride starts; describe what you want and it builds the route. The whole planner runs in any browser: big screen at home, or entirely from your phone. Out on the road your phone also becomes turn-by-turn nav and a trip dash. Screens from the app itself; trip telemetry shown with demo data.
"A three-day gravel loop out of Wellington, campsites only, back by Sunday lunch."
Wairarapa gravel loop · 412 km · 2 nights
Ōtaki Gorge → Waiohine → Kaitoke. Two DOC campsites, both
reachable on gravel. 1,180 m of climbing on day two.
Coast & ranges · 386 km · 2 nights
Longer seal sections, easier if it's been raining.
Describe the trip. Get the route.
Tell it what you actually want: "a gravel loop from Wellington with a lunch stop", "three days, campsites only, nothing over 300km a day". It comes back with real routes built from the same map: actual campsites, actual roads, actual elevation. Not a chatbot describing a trip, a route you can actually take.
In the trial and on every paid plan. 15 plans a day. It already knows what you're driving.
See the road before you take it
Pick the vehicle: adventure bike, 4WD, campervan or motorhome. Then prefer gravel, prefer twisty, or avoid highways. You get distance, drive time and a full elevation profile, and you can tilt the whole thing into 3D satellite to see what a pass actually looks like.
Know the climbing before you're in it
Every route comes with a full elevation profile: total gain and loss, the high point, and the steepest grade, charted the whole way along with the nastiest pitches marked. Queenstown to Wanaka over the Crown Range: 1,153m of climbing to a 1,071m high point, and you know that before you turn the key.
Can your vehicle actually get there?
Tap any site for access difficulty: sealed, maintained gravel, rough unpaved, or rugged 4x4, rated separately for large RVs, cars, SUVs, 4x4s and bikes. Plus fee, facilities, what's nearby, and estimated One NZ / 2degrees / Spark coverage so you know if you'll have signal.
Spoken turn-by-turn, on the bike or in the cab
Download New Zealand before you leave and navigation runs completely offline, including the voice. It keeps calling your turns out loud in the dead zones, because the speech runs on the phone itself, not off a server. Directions, speed limits and your position all keep working. Switch to the driving dash, the same one whatever you're in (bike, 4x4 or car), for speed, altitude, heading, barometer, wind, a rain scope and a live lean/tilt angle that reads an off-camber track as readily as a corner.
See the showers before they find you
Live rain radar straight on the map, plus temperature, wind, cloud and an hourly precipitation forecast you can scrub or play across the week. Knowing a band is about to cross Foveaux Strait is the difference between a good night and a wet one.
Find out the road is shut before you're standing at it
Closures come straight from NZTA Waka Kotahi, the agency that actually closes the road: their wording, their reason, their detour, and the stretch itself drawn on the map so you can see how far it runs. Snow on SH87 over the Rock and Pillar, slips on the West Coast, a bridge out in Northland.
Plan a route through one and it routes you around it instead, and tells you it did. The highlighted stretch is the extent NZTA reported; signs and cones on the day are the final word, so verify locally.
Know what's burning, before you head into it
NASA's satellites cross New Zealand several times a day and flag where the ground is hot: scrub above Christchurch on the Port Hills, a forestry block in Northland, tussock through the Mackenzie. Fire is on your map from the moment you open it; you don't have to know to switch it on. Tap one for how hot it is, how far the detections spread and how recently it was seen.
It shows where satellites saw heat, not the edge of a fire. One detection covers about 375 m, cloud or a night pass can hide a fire completely, and it won't update offline. Fire and Emergency New Zealand stays the authority on closures and evacuations; before you light anything at camp, checkitsalright.nz tells you the fire season where you are and whether you need a permit.
It knows when you've arrived
Pull into camp and the navigation actually finishes. Guidance stops, the turn banner goes, and you get the day laid out: what you rode, how long you were moving, your average, and the shape of the climb you just did. Tap End trip and it clears the route.
Left running, it would have kept trying to navigate you to the spot you were already standing on. Now the route has an ending.
Every campsite takes reviews, and reports of what it's like right now
A rating and a few honest sentences from people who actually slept there; and, separately, what the place is like this week: gate locked, sites flooded, fees changed, camp full. Freedom camping changes fast; a five-year-old review can't tell you council closed it in March, so the app asks both questions.
One report reads as one camper's word, and the app says so; a run of reports that agree becomes the answer everyone sees. Written notes are screened before other campers see them, links and spam are refused outright, and anything the screen isn't sure about waits for a human.
Everything that decides a route
DOC campsites, holiday parks, freedom camping, huts and hotels, plus the things that actually decide a route.
⛺ Everywhere you can sleep
DOC campsites, holiday parks, freedom camping and self-contained sites, alpine huts, hostels, cabins, B&Bs, hotels and motels; one map, one search, and a Save button under the name, so your shortlist follows you from the desktop to the phone.
⭐ What campers say, and whether the dog can come
Every site takes reviews from the people who actually slept there: a rating, and what the next camper should know. Dogs get their own answer, because most campgrounds have never published one. Report what the sign at the gate says and the map remembers it; one report reads as one camper's word, and a run of them that agree becomes the answer everyone sees. A route that enters a national park warns you before you leave: no New Zealand national park admits a dog without DOC's written permission, though driving through on a public road with the dog in the vehicle is allowed.
⛽ Know what's ahead before you commit
Fuel stations, drinking water, dump stations, toilets, shelters, shops, ATMs, repairs and hospitals, so you know what's ahead before you commit.
📶 Know where the signal dies
Per-carrier mobile tower coverage on the map; find the signal when you need it, or deliberately head out of it.
🧭 A route your vehicle can actually do
Prefer gravel or avoid highways, add stops, and get distance, drive time for the rig you picked (ride time from the real climbing if you're pedalling) and an elevation profile before you leave.
✨ Describe the trip, and AI plans it
Describe the trip in plain English and get real routes back, built from the same campsites and roads as the rest of the map. NZ only, and it plans routes; it won't wander off topic.
📈 Know what the day will cost you
See the climbing before you're in it: total gain and loss, highest point and steepest grade, drawn as a profile along the whole route. The difference between a pleasant afternoon and a bad decision.
🌧️ Weather you can see coming
Rain, wind and temperature along the route, plus live road-closure warnings and river crossings flagged on the way. Live rain radar is on from the moment you open the map, on the trial and on a paid plan alike.
🔥 Active fire, seen from orbit
NASA satellites cross New Zealand several times a day and flag where the ground is burning. Fire sits on your map from the moment you open it. Tap one for how hot it is, how far it spreads and how recently it was seen. It shows where satellites saw heat, not the edge of a fire; cloud or a night pass can hide one, so keep following Fire and Emergency NZ.
🔎 An answer to "where this weekend?"
One tap for waterfalls, hot springs, lookouts, lakes or backcountry huts near where you're looking; an answer to "where should I go this weekend", not a map you have to read.
🏔️ Read a pass before you're on it
Tilt into 3D to see what a pass actually looks like before you take it; route planning works in 3D too. Over satellite, place names stay upright and readable at any angle, however far you tilt or turn.
📥 The whole app, offline
Download New Zealand before you go: vector maps, satellite imagery and 3D terrain, every campsite, route planning, and spoken turn-by-turn. No signal required for any of it.
🔦 The reasons to take the long way
Waterfalls, hot springs, lookouts, caves, ghost towns and viewpoints; the reasons to take the long way.
🚩 Tell us when we're wrong
A fee that changed, a gate that's locked, a road our route should not have taken: report it from the place, the map or the route itself. It goes to us and nobody else, and you hear back in the app when it's fixed.
The places worth stopping for
Thirty-four food stops that earn a detour, hand-checked and pinned to the road they sit on. Not a restaurant directory: a crayfish caravan on SH1, a goldfields pub in a ghost town, the hotel in a self-declared republic.
Nin's Bin
A converted caravan on the seaward side of the highway. Crayfish cooked while you wait and eaten on the rocks; no indoor seating, no bookings.
Vulcan Hotel
An 1882 adobe pub in a gold-rush town that never grew back. The mud-brick walls are a metre thick and the detour off SH85 is the point.
Whangamomona Hotel
The pub at the middle of the Forgotten World Highway, in a village that declared itself a republic in 1989 and still issues passports over the bar.
Every entry names the road it sits on, carries the date it was last checked, and has a report-a-problem link, because a list like this is only worth having if somebody keeps it honest. Switch the layer on under Worth a Stop; it stays off until you ask for it.
Camps only campers know about
Found a good freedom camp, a quiet pull-in or a dump station that is not in any app? Add it from the map in about a minute. Name it, pick what it is (Freedom camp, Holiday park or campsite, Backcountry camp, Dump station, Drinking water, Shower or Rest area), tick what is there, and it is on the map for every other camper straight away, marked unconfirmed until someone checks it.
Then anyone who passes can answer for it, which is the part that keeps it honest:
- I've been, it's here
- It's gone
- Wrong spot
Two campers who have actually been there confirm a site; four who are checking from home. Confirmations fade with age, so a camp that closed does not stay confirmed forever, and a site campers disagree about is marked disputed rather than quietly dropped. You keep ownership of what you add.
No signal? It all still works.
Download New Zealand once, over wifi, and the app stops needing the internet. This matters on the phone, in the places where the bars run out.
One download, then you're independent
Tap once and the whole country comes with you: 1.8 GB of vector maps, satellite imagery and terrain, stored on the phone. It flips over by itself the moment your phone knows it's offline, so there's nothing to remember at the trailhead.
Live weather and place search still need a connection. Everything else (the map, planning a new route, your saved routes, elevation, campsites and spoken navigation) does not.
🛰️ Satellite and 3D terrain, offline
Not just a flat basemap; the satellite imagery and the terrain model come with you, so you can still tilt into 3D and read a pass properly in the middle of Fiordland.
🔊 The voice keeps talking
Spoken turn-by-turn runs on your phone's own speech engine, so it calls your turns in the dead zones exactly like it does in town. No server, no streaming, no silence.
🧭 Plan a new route with no signal
The router itself is on the phone. Sites, huts, fuel and water are stored with it, so you can plan tomorrow's route from a DOC campsite with no bars and drive it with spoken turns. One download covers the whole country.
Desktop and phone. No app store.
Motocamp is a website, so there is nothing to download and nothing to update. Open it in a browser and you are in: the big screen at home for planning, the phone in the mount for riding, the same account, saved routes and saved spots on both.
💻 Plan it on the big screen
Any laptop or desktop browser. Drawing a two-week loop is simply easier with a mouse and a wide map, and the route is on your phone before you stand up.
📱 Ride with it on the phone
Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app, with its own icon, full screen, no browser bars. iPhone, iPad and Android all work. The first time you open it, a short tour plans a trip in front of you, tilts the map, and hands the app back.
✈️ Fully offline on the phone
Download the areas you're crossing and the phone needs no signal at all: map, satellite, 3D terrain, campgrounds, routing and the spoken turns.
- Open motocamp.co.nz in Safari on an iPhone or iPad, or Chrome on Android, and sign in.
- Tap Share then Add to Home Screen on iOS. On Android, tap the three dots then Install app.
- The icon sits with your other apps and opens full screen. Deleting it never touches your account, your subscription or a single saved route.
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