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Train & hire
Private lessons, workplace training, location hire, plant, events and specialist driver days. Short version: call Roger and tell him what you need. No fake price list.
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Corporate / commercial 4WD training
Workplace and commercial driver training in a controlled forest venue. Courses can be NZQA-aligned. Talk to us about what your team needs — we will not list unit numbers here that go stale.
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Private training
One-to-one or small-group time on the purpose-built skills area, then into the trail network. Learn what your traction systems are doing before you need them in anger.
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Location hire — ads, film and TV
Pine, sand, clay and water within an hour of Auckland. Private hire for commercials, stills and screen work. 4WD access on internal tracks.
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Army / military enquire
The park can host military and specialist driver training by enquiry. Contact Roger to talk dates, access and what the ground can support.
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Plant & tracks training
Diggers and other plant, or trainers hiring the park as a venue. The ground is here. Talk to Roger about what you need to run — no fake price list.
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Host your event
Club days, corporates, family days. Invite your people. Dates, access and what the park can hold — talk to Roger.
You may know
Past events in the forest
Not the park’s own calendar. Things people already associate with Woodhill Forest.
Auckland Offroad Racing Club
Woodhill 100
Endurance off-road race through Woodhill Forest — a forest event people round here know. It is the club’s race, not a park product. We do not organise it.
Woodhill 100 — Auckland Offroad Racing Club
Location hire
Screen & stills in the pines
Woodhill Forest has hosted location work for Yogi Bear (2010) and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV). That is this forest / this kind of venue hire — not Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Some Ford New Zealand ads have been filmed here. Ask Roger if you are scouting a vehicle shoot.
The wider forest has also hosted Mulan (2020), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Spartacus, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Sweet Tooth, The Brokenwood Mysteries and others — listed by woodhillforest.co.nz.
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