With its warm, sunny climate Nelson Tasman is the perfect place for the huge diversity of backpacker activities you can do all year round - outdoors or indoors.  Whether it is something thrilling, something action-packed or just something relaxing that you want to do check it out below.  All listings have phone, email and/or web links so use those and contact operators directly to book your backpacker activites.   If you have found this site useful and make an enquiry from it please let the operator know that you heard about them via BackpackNelson.com. 

If you don't have your own transport many Nelson Tasman activity operators will pick up or drop off from hostels in Nelson City or other places around the region.  If they don't don't despair - there is a great network of transport around the region, supporting backpacking.  See the transport section of this site for options.