Our Commitment:

The Thundercross Team balances the environmental challenge of being a dirt bike park, offering recreational riding to fossil fuelled motorbikes, 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 enjoyed utilising second hand materials and furnishings in our fabulous Wool Shed renovation, even making our benchtops and furniture 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 funky rest room .  We save plastic bags for our rubbish bins and utilise old milk cartons for coffee trays.  Our eight chickens and two Kune Kune 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 and preserve the Park’s fences with old, waste oil. 

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 been working with local youth programme, Oho Mauri, on a regeneration programme at the Park, nurturing sapling native trees and shrubs and transplanting them to new sites around the Park, to create new areas of bush and protect our waterways.