Guthook Guides Australia & New Zealand

Please download "Guthook Guides: Hike & Bike Offline" to access the Te Araroa and other Australia and New Zealand Guides offered by Guthook Guides. Existing customers may transfer their purchases to the Guthook Guides: Hike & Bike Offline app.

Guthook Guides Australia & New Zealand is a detailed, map-based smartphone guide to the best trails in Australia and New Zealand, including the famous 3000-kilometre Te Araroa in New Zealand. Each trail guide maps and lists important hiker waypoints such as water sources, tenting sites, junctions, road crossings, resupply information, and many others. The Te Araroa guide has more than 2,000 waypoints.

The free demo covers a 60-kilometre portion of the Te Araroa in the Auckland area on the North Island of New Zealand.

In app purchases include:

New Zealand:

- Te Araroa

- Routeburn Track

- Greenstone and Caples Track

- Kepler Track

- Milford Track

Australia:

- Bibbulmun Track

- Overland Track

- Larapinta Trail

- Three Capes Track

- Cape to Cape

- Wilsons Promontory Grand Circuit

- George Bass Coast Trail

Key features:

- No mobile or internet connection is required after initial setup -- works in Airplane Mode

- Detailed maps with your GPS location

- Elevation profile view

- Custom route creator

- Multiple offline map choices

- Real-time comments from other hikers

- Send your current location to friends or family via text message or email

The guidebook lists every waypoint in order by distance along the trail and how far away you are from each waypoint. The guidebook also includes a detailed town guide for major resupply points, towns, and services along each trail.

Waypoint details include:

- Mileage point and elevation

- Photographs

- Distance to the next water source and tent site

- Comments section where you may post comments and read other hikers’ comments

Types of waypoints:

- Water sources (including the reliability of each water source)

- Detailed resupply and town information:

- post offices and other package services

- restaurants

- grocery stores and convenience stores

- gear shops and hardware stores

- laundromats

- lodging, public showers, public restrooms

- public libraries

- Tenting sites/camping sites

- Trail junctions

- Parking areas along the trail

- Picnic areas, campgrounds, ranger stations

- Roads, railroad tracks, power lines, fences, gates

- Natural landmarks (e.g. mountain passes)

- Privies/restrooms

- Views