Jennifer Branje has spent the last six months freedom camping around the South Island.
Now she's calling for freedom camping to be banned, and wants New Zealand impose a visitor ballot.
"We opened all these areas for the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and they've never been closed up again. I liken it to when you have the family to stay for Christmas and you pull out the sofa bed, but then you never put it away and just start taking randoms in, and then start cleaning up after them."
Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis said New Zealand was ''a long way'' from needing to limit tourist numbers.
She said private campervan companies are making huge profits, while ratepayers and tax payers are paying to clean up after tourists and build infrastructure to cope with the unlimited numbers coming into the country. Privately owned campgrounds were also suffering.
"If we select the volume of visitors we receive according to available accommodation options that support our tourism community, there would be no need to build roadside communes."
"We are selling ourselves short. We ask travellers to respect our country while visiting, but have we lost respect for it ourselves?"
Branje, of Southland, has freedom camped around the South Island spreading the message about her company, Southproud, an online guide for visitors to New Zealand's southern regions.
"I have lived among those who come here, buy a cheap people mover, van or station wagon and proceed to use our country as a temporary home," she wrote on her blog.
"I've watched them remove their porta potties to make more room for luggage while still displaying 'self-containment' stickers. I have picked up their rubbish, buried their crap and been abused for calling out travellers who proceed to hack at our native trees to gather firewood so they can cook their two minute noodles.
"I've walked into public rest rooms to see women, naked with one foot on the basin ... where our children are expected to wash their hands after toileting. I've been packed into designated 'free camping' areas like a proverbial sardine and witnessed total disrespect for our country, our people and our culture and an unconceivable sense of entitlement that has become the 'norm'. I've also visited beautiful camp grounds with excellent facilities that are hardly occupied. Why buy the milk when you can get the cow for free?"
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment figures show only three per cent of visitors to New Zealand do any freedom camping, but they stay longer, spend more on their trip and visit more of the regions than people who don't.
Minister of Tourism Kelvin Davis said New Zealand was a long way from being at risk of 'over-tourism' and needing to limit visitor numbers.
"Kiwis and visitors alike have a long tradition of enjoying camping in New Zealand, and all have a collective duty to care for our country.
"We want campers to understand the importance of camping responsibly here in New Zealand. Most campers look after the environment they camp in."
Davis said while most campers are respectful, it was clear that some campers were letting the side down and needed to take more care when they are touring New Zealand. The Government had set aside $8.5 million to fund infrastructure, education and enforcement projects across New Zealand this summer.
"We've received positive feedback from around the country about how this additional infrastructure has helped our communities.
"We're helping campers do the right thing and camp responsibility by providing funding for infrastructure, educating campers on what is expected of them and helping councils spread the responsible camping message.
"We can work together to protect the things that make Aotearoa special and help ensure they last for future generations. The recently launched Tiaki – Care for New Zealand clearly sets out how we can all be guardians of our place and people."