Walks from the Milford Road

Key Summit - 3 hours return The Key Summit track is an ideal introduction to the impressive scenery and natural features of Fiordland National Park. The track starts at The Divide carpark Protect plants and animals and shelter and follows the Routeburn Remove rubbish Track for about an hour. It then branches off on a 20 minute climb to Key Summit, Bury toilet waste where there is a self guided alpine nature walk. Keep streams and lakes clean Walkers will pass a range of native Take care with fires vegetation: beech forest, sub-alpine shrublands, and alpine tarns and bogs. Camp carefully Birdlife is prolific and tomtits, robins, wood pigeons and bellbirds are commonly seen. Keep to the track Key Summit provides panoramic views Consider others over the Humboldt and Darran Mountains. During the last ice age, which ended about Respect our cultural heritage 14,000 years ago, a huge glacier flowed

Enjoy your visit down the Hollyford Valley and overtopped Key Summit by 500 metres, with ice Toitu te whenua branches splitting off into the Eglinton and ( Leave the land undisturbed ) Greenstone Valleys.

Lake Marian - 3 hours return The Lake Marian Track is signposted from a car park area about 1 km down the Hollyford Road. The track crosses the Hollyford River/ Whakatapu Ka Tuku by swing-bridge then passes through silver beech forest to a spectacular series of waterfalls, reached after 10 minutes. The track then becomes steep and sometimes muddy during the 1.5 hour ascent through forest to Lake Marian. Lake Marian is in a hanging valley, formed by glacial action, and this setting is one of the most beautiful in Fiordland. The lake is above the bush line and reflects the Darran Mountains which surround it.

Lake Gunn Nature Walk - 45 minute round trip The Lake Gunn Nature Walk is an easy 45 minute loop walk suited to all ages and accessible to wheelchairs. The walk provides an introduction to tall L I red beech forest and birdlife typical of the V I Eglinton Valley. Side trips can be made to N G

several lake beaches and sheltered fishing S T spots. O N E Knob’s Flat M Here an interpretive display has been O provided to show the effect of avalanches U N on the Milford road and give some infor- T A I mation on the wildlife of the Eglinton valley. N S Mirror Lakes - 5 minutes A good place to stretch your legs The tracks shown on this during the drive to Milford Sound. Small publication are classified lakes provide outstanding reflective views as follows. of the Earl Mountains. Waterfowl and wetland plants can be seen against a Wheelchair Access - Mirror backdrop of beech forest. Lakes, The Chasm, Bowen Falls The Chasm - 20 minutes return Path - Well formed track Two foot bridges over the Cleddau with easy grades. River offer spectacular views of a series of waterfalls. Thousands of years of swirling Walking Track - A defined, water have sculpted round shapes and formed track. basins in the rock. Tramping Track - Limited track formation, often with Bowen Falls - 30 minutes return steep grades. A boardwalk skirts the steep rockwall shoreline beyond the Milford Sound launch Route - Lightly cut, marked or unmarked, often steep terminal. It passes through rain forest and grades. emerges at the spray-swept base of the Bowen waterfall. This waterfall is particu- Do not feed the kea. larly spectacular after rain.

Dogs are not permitted in Fiordland National Park. Other Walks Lake Mistletoe is reached by an All track times shown are for return attractive forest walk from Te Anau Downs distance. (45 minutes return). There are dump stations The Humboldt Falls walk starts from at Te Anau, Knob's Flat near the end of the Hollyford Road (30 and Milford Sound. minutes return). Please do not dispose of Tracks and Routes chemical toilet waste on pler T There are several other tramping tracks Ke ra the road sides. ck and routes accessible from the Milford There are no petrol Road which require a high degree of stations enroute to preparation and fitness. For information on Milford Sound. these contact the Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre. Snow chains must be often carried during the winter months.