Name: Kerr Bay Campground
Address: Kerr Bay Road, St Arnaud 7072, New Zealand, NZ
Telephone: +64 3-521 1808

Kerr Bay Campground is a point of interest, located at Kerr Bay Road, St Arnaud 7072, New Zealand. They can be contacted via phone at +64 3-521 1808, visit their website www.doc.govt.nz for more detailed information.

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Kerr Bay Road, St Arnaud 7072

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Ajay Pant

15 September 2017

Kerr Bay campground is easily accessible add it is close to the main road. It has the kitchen facility, toilets and showers. Having this campsite next to the Lake Rotoiti makes it a place to be
Tony Zhao

18 August 2017

Quite, beautiful, lots of tracks to hike, nicely campsite setup.
Stephen Whelan

27 July 2017

Well kept camp in a beautiful setting by the lake.
Philippe Guasch-Caludé

07 July 2017

Great place to stay for the night ! Kitchen and toilet perfect !
Dave Grainger

01 March 2017

Encountered perhaps the least flexible and most unreasonable campsite warden in 12 years living in NZ. Threatened me with fines and generally unwelcoming. I get that doc is underfunded but if this is how we welcome national park visitors now it's pretty sad. Also sandflies worse than ever
Kathryn Lee

05 January 2017

Superb location, fantastic facilities - not the usual bare necessities you might expect from DoC.

So one star? Well, that was thanks to appallingly incompetent management. First of all, it states you MUST make bookings. So we did, back in November. When we arrived, however, we found that someone was backed up so far they were blocking off half our site. We raised the issue with the camp host, but he didn't care as that person was there for the week and we were only staying the night. Ok. Fine. We can work around that.

Later that night, we heard an engine outside. The host was arranging with late strivers who didn't have a booking to make themselves at home on the front of our site. Given his earlier belligerence, we knew that any conversation would be unproductive.

It was hugely annoying as this was supposed to be a two site spot but by the time we woke up, there was another vehicle shoved onto the front of our site. So, to recap, we had one party taking up a big portion of our (booked and paid for) site. Then two more vehicles were shoved onto the site at the camp host's instruction (without asking us, of course).

This sloppy attitude and disregard for the signposted and widely publicised rules was upsetting and ruined our stay. I would discourage anyone from paying $21 per person for a powered site and suggest that they head to a professionally managed campground instead. At least there you know that when you wake up in the morning there won't be random people sprawled out on the site that you thought you paid for to enjoy to yourself.

Shameful stuff, DoC. You do such great work, but you need to get the administration of this place under control. It makes a mockery of the whole system.
Tanel Laansalu

16 August 2016

Camping with one of the best views in New Zealand. New and clean facilites.
Michael Brown

18 April 2016

Beautiful views, great showers. Very basic kitchen with hot water.
Victoria Ng

09 April 2016

We booked a power site for our campervan and arrived before it was dark. There was a camp host resided at the site, his campervan was located near the common toilet and shower area. Do note that a token is required for hot shower, which was $1 for 7 minutes. Token can be purchased from the camp host. There is basic amenities in the kitchen such as stoves and hot water dispenser, microwave not available. Remember to apply insect repellent to chase away nasty sandflies. Priceless view of the lake.