The Tongariro Northern Circuit loops 44 km around three live volcanoes on the North Island, past old craters and the cold green of the Emerald Lakes. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The track circles Ngauruhoe, Tongariro and Ruapehu, climbing past the Red Crater and down to the Emerald Lakes before it loops back through tussock and old lava flow to the start. Ngāti Tūwharetoa chief Horonuku Te Heuheu Tūkino IV gifted the three peaks to the Crown in 1887, and the land became Tongariro National Park in 1894, New Zealand's first and among the earliest anywhere to begin as a gift from its indigenous owners rather than a claim over their land.

The Emerald Lakes get their colour from sulphur and dissolved minerals leaching out of the geothermal ground near Red Crater, the water acidic enough to sting a scraped knee. Ngauruhoe played Mount Doom in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, though its summit remains sacred to local Māori, who ask walkers not to climb it.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Cradle Summit, Hobsons Bay Trail and Larapinta Trail.

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