Campgrounds & overnight networks — Australia & New Zealand
Campground, freedom-camping and holiday-park networks for Australia and New Zealand — a different market to the European aires/Stellplätze networks covered elsewhere on this hub. Curated from our vendor registry; status reflects when we last checked each source, and provisional entries are marked as such rather than presented as verified.
iOverlander
Global crowdsourced overlanding POI database. Camping plus mechanics, water, propane, laundry, showers, border crossings and checkpoints. Human-moderated, explicitly never sponsored. The only one of these that works outside North America and Oceania.
NA / OC / Global Visit site →Hipcamp
Marketplace for camping and RV stays on private land — the 'Airbnb of camping'. Operates in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. PROVISIONAL on market list: only its US and Canada Q&A pages were seen in this research pass. Note: Hipcamp's own Q&A content contained a factual error on BC Crown-land residency rules — use it as a booking channel, not as a legal source.
US / CA / AU / NZ Visit site →WikiCamps Australia
Australia's dominant crowdsourced camping app: 65,000+ campgrounds, caravan parks, free camps, dump points, water points and showers, with offline mode and a trip planner. Separate New Zealand and Canada editions are published by the same developer.
AU Visit site →WikiCamps New Zealand
New Zealand edition of WikiCamps, confirmed to exist by the Australian publisher's own FAQ. PROVISIONAL: the .co.nz URL was inferred and not directly verified in the July 2026 pass — resolve before publishing.
NZ Visit site →CamperMate
Australia and New Zealand road-trip app covering campsites, holiday parks, national park campgrounds, public toilets, dump stations and free wifi. Endorsed on Tourism New Zealand's own freedom-camping page. Recent user reviews flag offline-map reliability issues.
AU / NZ Visit site →Rankers Camping NZ
Positions itself as the official New Zealand camping map, produced in association with local councils, the Responsible Camping Forum, DOC, i-SITE and Tourism NZ. Only shows camping locations approved by the 67 councils it represents — its core value proposition is fine avoidance. 1,500+ campsites, ~6,000 POIs, full offline maps, all public and holiday-park dump stations.
NZ Visit site →DOC Campsites (Department of Conservation)
New Zealand's public campsite network: more than 300 conservation campsites, of which over 250 are vehicle accessible. Many require advance booking even with a Campsite Pass. Staying at a DOC campsite is legally NOT freedom camping, which matters for self-containment rules.
NZ Visit site →Sources
What this page is based on — every source is verified and links out so you can check it yourself.
- Verified / official
- Provisional
- Out of date