Kerr Bay Campsite
Lake Rotoiti
45 Rankers Reviews
23 Face-to-Face
17 Dump Station
2 St Arnaud
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Kerr Bay Campsite is 500 metres from the St Arnaud village shop.
The campground is open all year around. During the summer months bookings are essential. Bookings are not available during the winter.
BOOKINGS:
A $10 service fee applies to all phone, email and in-person bookings.
Your booking will be for a site, which will be allocated or selected on arrival.
Bookings are required 1 December to 30 April. Book well in advance for the Christmas holiday period, classic boat show and powerboat regatta weekends, and Easter.
Campsite zones:
There are five camping zones, each with varying numbers of sites.
Powered Sites with hardened surfaces:
- Bellbird
- Fantail
- Robin and Tui zone.
Grassy zone suitable for tents:
-Kaka zone
Kiwi sites are suitable for campervans and provide a gravel surface with some grass around the sites.
Facilities and services:
- A day shelter provides kitchen and cooking facilities – no pots, pans, cutlery.
The ablution block has:
- hot showers that are token operated. You can get tokens from the Visitor Centre.
- toilets
- full access shower/toilet, and washing machine and clothes dryer.
- There is a sewage dump station opposite the cooking shelter.
Details
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Organisation |
DOC MarlboroughCentral government organisation |
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Location |
South Island ▷ Nelson Region ▷ St Arnaud |
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Operating Season And Hours |
Bookings not required from Easter (mid April) to mid December.
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Reviews
Showing 8 reviews of 42.
Wayne
Ranking: 10/10
By far the best DoC camp I’ve visited. Spent last three nights here on powered site. Great environment and every amenity.
Camp hosts are awesome.
Sandy Bao
Ranking: 10/10
the best campsite I have ever been, brand new shower, toilet facilities, etc.
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Valg
Ranking: 10/10
This is a beautiful campsite with all the trimmings, powered sites, new toilets,laundry,kitchen area with hot water , hot showers ($1)and dump station.we stayed the long weekend so had to book on line and got the last space. A beautiful lake with walks or bike tracks to choose from.
Only problem was the sandflies and masses of bumblebees! Take plenty of insect repellent!
Pablo Boris
Ranking: 9/10
Great place to stay! Showers 2 dollars, powered and non pwrd places. Great place to cook and eat, hot (boiling) and fresh water. Hose to water up your campervan, washing machines and hand/hair dryers. Highly recommended, check in 10 am and out 11/12am. Sandflies level: 4/10.
Ying
Ranking: 10/10
A fantastic campsite near beautiful Lake Rotoiti, we were very impressed with the cooking and paid hot shower facilities (didn't expect it at a DOC site). There are lots of sites spaced out and it was nearly empty when we were there, so quiet and peaceful. Great spot for nature walks - we spotted lots of birds and even a pair of wild deer
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Kysha
Ranking: 10/10
Beautiful location right by Lake Rotoiti. Campsite well set up with kitchen facilities, toilets and hot showers (token system, $1 per token for 6 mins of hot water). We stayed in a powered site for $23 per adult. Non powered sites were $20 pp.
If arriving before 4.30pm, register at the DOC office about 200m before the lake on the right-hand side. You can buy tokens for the showers there too. If coming after hours, there's an onsite host (but they can't give you a campsite until after the DOC office closes).
As others have said, plenty of sandflys about so bring repellent.
Lake 100m away from campsite, where you can swim, hire canoes, get a water taxi and there's a playground for kids.
Campsite has rubbish and recycling bins and a dump station.
Saw some American tourists feeding eels off the jetty.. which I'm glad I only saw after I'd had a swim!
lisa
Ranking: 9/10
Fantastic facilities at this campsite...best I've experienced.
And a beautiful setting on the lake with a lovely walk around the lake and the option of boat ride to lake head and walk back to camp.
Sophi
Ranking: 8/10
A great DOC site, lake Rotoiti is just beautiful. We were delayed arriving due to bad weather so missed checking in at the visitor center. The camp hosts were then not around until later & had no shower tokens on them. We managed to park up in the right area with our tent as per our booking email though.
The new toilets are fab, didn’t use the showers due to no tokens.
Be warned, the sand flies are a pain!!
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Thanks to all the good people working for the NZ Department of Conservation - for all your hard work - making NZ more beautiful, accessable and healthy! Cheers 😍
