KŌPIKO AOTEAROA
Kōpiko Aotearoa is a route across the North Island of New Zealand from East Coast to Taranaki (or the other way if you prefer).Sign up for email updates from event organiser Simon Kennett. Here's his last update from 4 Jan 2023.
Here's a detailed Google map of the route [updated 11 Mar 2023]
GUIDEBOOKS
- Kopiko Aotearoa - Cape Egmont to East Cape [Paper Edition] or PDF Edition
- Updates to the guidebooks 5 Jan 2023
These guidebooks provide vital turn-by-turn cue sheets, maps, elevation charts and important contact details along the standard route. All in a compact no-nonsense format.
GPS FILES
- GPX format (generic GPS format, less than 10,000 points, 993 K Bytes, 11 Mar 2023)
- Detour via Whakatane to avoid Cyclone Gabrielle damage (20 Feb 2023)
- Use https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ to convert to other formats
CLASSIC ROUTE West to East GPS files:
- GPX format (generic GPS format, less than 10,000 points, 999 K Bytes, 11 Mar 2023)
- Detour via Whakatane to avoid Cyclone Gabrielle damage (20 Feb 2023)
- Use https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ to convert to other formats
Kopiko 2024 Brevet event
The 2024 event will start in late January 2024 [exact start dates will be announced mid-2023]. It is expected that by 2024 we'll be able to return to East Cape - however that is contingent on the East Cape road being fixed.
Enter the Kopiko Aotearoa 2024 Brevet here. Once the event has started your friends and family will be able to follow along.
Sign up for email updates from Simon Kennett
Archived 2022 Gisborne start/finish route, aka "the Covid route":
The 2022 event had to avoid East Cape because of Covid and road closures. These links are archived here in case we ever need to revert to this route option.
- Updates for Kopiko 2022 Covid changes [19 Jan 2022] - download and print this free supplement which covers the 2022 Covid route changes.
- Supplemental cue sheets by Erik Westra [17 Jan 2022]:
- East to West: Ohura to Lepperton section
- East to West: Te Teko to Rainbow Mountain section
- West to East: Lepperton to Ohura section
- West to East: Rainbow Mountain to Te Teko section
2022 COVID ROUTE East to West GPS files:
- GPX format (generic GPS format, less than 10,000 points, 1137 K Bytes, 11 mar 2023)
- Use https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ to convert to other formats
2022 COVID ROUTE West to East GPS files:
- GPX format (generic GPS format, less than 10,000 points, 995 K Bytes, 11 Mar 2023)
- Use https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ to convert to other formats
