These giant ferns abound along the track through Abel Tasman National Park, making parts of the trail seem like a location set for Jurassic Park.
Views of golden sand beaches and turquoise water come and go as you walk the Abel Tasman National Park trail on a lodge-to-lodge multi-day hike. You go in and out of dense coastal forests thick with giant tree ferns and other native plants and cross gorgeous beaches that are part of the trail. A quick dip in the ocean is always a possibility to cool off. The Abel Tasman was one of the hiking highlights of a one-year journey that took us to 23 countries. The Abel Tasman was right up there with a hut-to-hut multi-day excursion in the Swiss Alps and other epic hikes in Austria and Iceland.