• That's the setting, and there's permanent water flow there as well. | Twin Pools Crossing campsite, Tin Range, Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island
  • There's not a lot of choice of where to pitch your tent. | Twin Pools Crossing campsite, Tin Range, Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island
  • Dry, level, lumpiness factor. Pick two. | Twin Pools Crossing campsite, Tin Range, Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island
  • There's a couple of decent plunge pools to cool off, if the weather is favourable. | Twin Pools Crossing campsite, Tin Range, Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island

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Twin Pool Crossing campsite | Tin Range, Stewart Island

The Twin Pool Crossing campsite is most obvious camping site in the Tin Range, close to the halfway point of the route. Obvious because of the permanent water supply in the creek, you could even have a dip here on a warm day in a choice of plunge pools, combined with a flattish area that is mostly devoid of scrub and tussock covering.

It’s not entirely ideal, choose either sloping or lumpy, but there’s not really room for much more than four small tents in any degree of comfort.

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category . . . campsite

camping fee . . . none

campsites . . . 4 small, ie, one or two person tents, in varying degrees of lumpiness

facilities . . . none

water . . . stream, 30 m walk

toilet . . . none, bury your, err, waste