Wanganui National Park - encompasses the wild upper and middle sections of the Wanganui River which you can see was very brown from all the rains and runoff. There was actually a lahar, or mudflow at 11 am on Sunday March 18th, causing the tephra dam at Mt. Ruapehu to burst. That was fortunately the day after I did a 7 hour hike at Atene. You can see that the hike was supposed to take 8 hours so I did it in record time. You walk in a circle so you come out at a different entrance seven hours later. I had a Rural Mail Delivery contract person drop me off and pick me up seven hours later.