Te Awaroa National Park — Complete Guide: All 10 Animals, Need Zones, Best Weapons & Tips

Te Awaroa National Park is a reserve DLC released in 2020 in theHunter: Call of the Wild, modelled on New Zealand. A New Zealand reserve beneath the Southern Alps with beech forest and alpine peaks to hunt and explore.

This page covers everything about Te Awaroa National Park: all 10 species with their class, trophy thresholds and need-zone clocks, the weapons that cover every class here, our illustrated interactive map, the official screenshots, our hunting tips, and answers to the questions players ask most.

Te Awaroa National Park in Pictures

Feral goat by the lighthouse Red deer stag on a lake shore at sunset Volcanic peak Te Awaroa's lakes from the air Feral pig in a misty forest Feral pig resting in the grass Deer on a hillside below a lookout Feral goat in a forest clearing Feral goat in the long grass Stag in a forest glade Tree ferns below a lookout tower Lookout tower at sunset Lake shore in the pines Inside a lookout hut Camp in a forest clearing Hunter taking aim on the lake shore F.L. Sporter .303 rifle

17 official images from the game's store page. Tap any image to enlarge.

About Te Awaroa National Park

Temperate beech forest and rainforest, deciduous and spruce/pine forest, rolling hills, steep alpine peaks and beaches. Story of warden Kiri Taylor, a movie set and a crashed helicopter from the helicopter deer-hunting era. 20 huts as outposts. Himalayan Tahr and Mallard were added after launch.

What you get with the Te Awaroa National Park DLC:

• Size: 25 sq mi (64 km²).
• Terrain: rolling hills, temperate rainforest, beech/deciduous forest, mountains, alpine peaks, beaches, spruce and pine forest.
• Species: Sika Deer, Chamois, Feral Goat, Feral Pig, Red Deer, Turkey, European Rabbit, Fallow Deer.
• Weapon: F.L. Sporter .303 bolt-action rifle.
• 16 story missions with warden Kiri Taylor; themes include film-tourism pressure.
• Non-owners can join owners’ sessions (no narrative missions).

Interactive Map of Te Awaroa National Park

Toggle the layers. Pick a species to light up where it’s found, and tap any marker for its name and grid reference.

Illustration, not a copy of the in-game map. Positions are approximate and scaled from published coordinates to a 10 × 10 grid. The beech forest in the west and hillsides in the east come from guide descriptions. The alpine high country in the north is illustrative. Hut and lookout positions come from game-file coordinates. Use the in-game map for navigation.

Regions at a Glance

Outposts and Lookouts

Outposts are fast-travel points; climbing a lookout reveals the map around it. Grid references match the map’s grid layer (columns A–J west to east, rows 1–10 north to south).

All 10 Animals on Te Awaroa National Park

Every species on the reserve, heaviest class first. Each card shows the class, the hardest difficulty it can reach, the diamond threshold, any Great One, and the published feed, drink and rest times. For full trophy data see our animals page.

Need-zone times are the published in-game windows (24-hour clock). Zone locations differ between saves, so find and mark your own.

Trophy Thresholds on Te Awaroa National Park

The trophy rating you need for each medal. Diamonds only drop at the top difficulty levels, so check an animal’s level with your binoculars before you shoot.

Best Weapons for Te Awaroa National Park

The smallest base-game kit that covers every class here (1–6), so whatever walks into a zone you have legal ammo:

• Caversham Steward 12G: classes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 (12 GA Birdshot, 12 GA Buckshot, 12 GA Slug)

Good DLC upgrades for the bigger game here: Bearclaw Lite CB-60 (Free DLC/download), Crosspoint CB-165 (Weapon Pack 1), Houyi Recurve Bow (Weapon Pack 1), Grelck Drilling Rifle (Weapon Pack 2), Solokhin MN1890 (Weapon Pack 2), Eckers .30-06 (Weapon Pack 3). See every pack in our weapon pack guides.

Hunting Tips for Te Awaroa National Park

• Huts act as outposts - 20 of them spread across the map for fast travel.
• Red Deer, Fallow Deer and Tahr can spawn Great Ones here.
• Head west into the beech forest for sika deer (rated ‘very hard’).
• Check animal max weight in the map menu’s Animal Information - track/spot weights differ.
• Work the drink zones. Most species here have a published drink window (see the cards above). Sit near water in that window, downwind, and let the animals come to you.
• Bird hunting: Mallard, Merriam Turkey live here. Bring a shotgun with birdshot, and use decoys and callers where you can.
• Great One grind: for Red Deer, Fallow Deer, Tahr, harvest steadily on this reserve. Every kill of that species counts toward the Great One. See the diamond guide.
• Fabled furs: only level-10 animals of Red Deer, Fallow Deer, Tahr can carry a Fabled fur. Glass every herd for top-level animals.
• Diamonds: only take max-level animals when chasing trophies, use in-class ammo, and make a clean one-shot kill to keep the harvest bonus.

Similar Reserves

These reserves share the most species with Te Awaroa National Park:

New South Wales, AustraliaEmerald Coast Australia4 shared species

Scottish HighlandsTòrr nan Sìthean4 shared species

Central EuropeHirschfelden Hunting Reserve3 shared species

Sources: official store page for theHunter: Call of the Wild — Te Awaroa National Park, our species database (class, thresholds, need zones and furs compiled from community trackers and checked in game where possible), and published game-file coordinates for the map. Compiled October 2026.