Thread: Farmer lying about paper road?

Originally Posted by zimmer

I looked at this about a year ago. Wasn't for hunting access though, was for other reasons.

Read this https://www.walkingaccess.govt.nz/kn...d-legal-roads/

It's a matter of determining which body is responsible for the ULR and talk to them. Maybe that is DOC in your case?

If you do stick with your rights and access the URL you need to be very sure that you are on the URL and not on the private adjoining property. Determining this could be difficult.

Some, (not all) farmers will deny the existence. Not sure I blame them for this given the mayhem that could occur with some types of people accessing.

I have marked the centre line in my phone and downloaded the map. There are very obvious landmarks the whole way it's probably the nicest paper Road I have seen in terms of being able to follow.

I have most of the ULR stuff but will have to check with the council to make sure the legal road still exists. Even just using the block as a pseudo game park is shit regardless of restricting access.

I understand the farmers point of veiw that people are a pain in the arse and plenty are shit but I'm not a beleiever in lying about things just to avoid a hassle. We allow hunters on our farm (no public anywhere near) to shoot small game and if you know someone we know we may let you hunt pheasants but we don't allow pig hunters or deer hunters except by invitation as we have a very low population of each and with poaching nuking the deer we have only shoot one deer in the last 4 years trying to up the numbers a bit. We tell guys that's why we don't let guys hunt big game and access is only while we are around not make up some yarn.