Our Commitment:

The Thundercross Crew balances the environmental challenge of being a dirt bike Park, offering recreational riding to dirt bikes, with a commitment to following sustainable practices in all aspects of the Park’s business.  We proudly align with the Tiaki Promise and are committed to sustainable tourism.   As guardians of this special piece of Waikato we will protect our precious Park, look after the land and be good guardians for future generations.

Tiaki - Care for New Zealand was created through a collective desire to share a connection to the natural world, inspiring and helping visitors to travel safely and conscientiously.

We illustrate our sustainability by recycling as much as possible.  We enjoy utilising second-hand materials and furnishings in our Wool Shed, even our benchtops and furniture were created out of fallen trees from around the Park.  

We reject packaging, where possible, and use local providers for supplies.  We recycle tin, card, paper and plastic at the local community collection point once a month and use washable hand towels in our rest room.  We save plastic bags for our rubbish bins and utilise old milk cartons for coffee trays.  Our pigs enjoy our food scraps, with garden waste going into our compost area to nurture the Park’s orchard.  We repurpose the Wool Shed’s grey water as irrigation for the garden area.

Our bikes are serviced and maintained after each hire to keep them performing economically and replaced every 5 years, with fuel-efficient, modern models.  We are actively seeking to find a suitable model of electric dirt bike to add to the hire bike fleet …watch this space. 

We have two areas of significant native bush at Thundercross, as recognised by Waikato District Council.  Since 2020 we have held yearly Matariki planting with our Crew & Marshals to keep our regeneration programme alive at the Park, each year we plant a variety of nurturing sapling native trees and shrubs to create new areas of bush and protect our waterways. 

Your opportunity to help! …

To expand the native varieties around Thundercross, we have joined with a local Nursery to offer our visitors the opportunity to join our guardianship programme.  For a donation of only $10 you can purchase a native tree that will be introduced to our Park and planted in recognition of yourself or in the memory of a special loved-one.  You are welcome to write a personal note (on environmentally-friendly, compostable paper) to go in the ground with your tree.