This short walk takes you up 50 m in elevation through silver beech forest to a platform overlooking Cameron Creek, with good views down the Makarora Valley towards Mount Birnam. Beyond the viewing ...

This well-maintained gravel track climbs 150 m in elevation through beech forest to a viewpoint above the trees with a stunning vista of the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o Te Moana. Mount Brewster is ...

Walk or mountain bike this track to Isthmus Peak (1385 m) and cross the undulating skyline ridge on Glen Dene Ridge Track. The track overlooks Lake Wānaka and Lake Hāwea, with great views of the ...

This two-room 16 bunk hut has separate dining / living space. The small clearing outside the hut is suitable for camping. Before you go, buy 1 Standard Hut Ticket (blue for adults, yellow for youth) ...

This uni-direction single track weaves through typical Otago landscape featuring matagouri and tussock. There is a small section of shade on the track as it passes through the edge of a pine ...

Double Hut is 3 hours (10 km) from Lake Heron car park, off Hakatere Heron Road. It's 8 hours (16 km) from Comyns Hut. There is limited firewood at the hut. Do not cut down vegetation to use.

York Road Loop Track follows part of the old Egmont Branch Railway Line. It best walked in a clockwise direction and passes ten numbered sites of interest along the way. From Stratford, head north ...

No dogs. Other pets on conservation land rules. From the end of Franklin Road take the Dean Track south-west and uphill through private farmland for 30 minutes to reach the park boundary. The track ...

No dogs. Other pets on conservation land rules. The track is well marked and signposted, but some sections may be steep and rough and the track could be muddy. There is one compulsory tidal crossing – ...

A DOC ranger caring for a population of Powelliphanta augusta snails has for the first time caught a snail laying an egg on video. In the video, a small egg, resembling a tiny hen’s egg, emerges from ...

A takahē and a tuatara have been filmed engaging in a bush-floor stoush in a new video captured by a quick-thinking DOC Ranger. Filmed on pest-free Tiritiri Matangi Island, the video shows New Zealand ...

DOC has reopened more of the popular Hooker Valley Track in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, as work starts on a spectacular new suspension bridge. “We know how much this iconic walk is valued and how ...