Bannockburn, New Zealand
143 Felton Road
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Good for kids
Great trail. Can take active primary school aged children. Lots of evidence of 19th century mining to discover. Take plenty of water in summer. Wear decent, enclosed footwear at all times.
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This was well worth the hour and a half it took to do the loop track.
The walk around the Bannockburn Sluicings is pretty darn good. The loop track is around 3.5 to 4 km and takes a good hour or more if you explore a bit and stop for a few snaps. It's amazing to think that this landscape was modified do much by mining efforts around 150 years ago. It looks like something in a desert from the movies. Reading the information panels is worthwhile if you like history, particularly gold mining history. The Stewart town ruins are pretty cool and make you wonder what life would be like up here all those years ago. Be careful to follow the trail as it's easy enough to wander off onto other tracks. Just follow the markers and check for them regularly. The walk is quite hilly so a reasonable degree of fitness is required as us being reasonably sure footed. Nothing is too difficult though. Take water on a hot day. The views are panoramic and truly stunning as you get to the top. It feels like you can see 100 miles as you look out over the vineyards, across Cromwell and all the way down Lake Dunstan to the mountains. Beautiful.
Great walk to explore the history of this gold mining area. The track should suit all levels of fitness but there is a lack of signposts and it's easy to wander off the main track meaning that you'll need to backtrack. I'd recommend doing the full loop up to Stewart Town. Take some water if the weather is hot as it can be quite dusty and dry.
Brilliant walk amongst a landscape that looks like a movie set for a western movie. Great history and enjoyable walking
Such a great walk, trails are well developed and well maintained! Beautiful views and an easy walk. Highly recommend
Dramatic, sureal landscape, well worth a visit.
A popular walk over historic gold sluicing sites. The track is well formed and relatively easy. A few historic building remains exist and the odd DOC info board explains these. The walk is pretty raw and gives you an insight of the tough conditions the gold prospectors endured.
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