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The Milford Track is a hiking route in New Zealand, located amidst mountains and temperate rain forest in Fiordland National Park in the southwest of the South Island. The 53.5 km (33.2 mi) hike starts at Glade Wharf at the head of Lake Te Anau and finishes in Milford Sound at Sandfly Point, traversing rainforests, wetlands, and an alpine pass.
Heaphy Track – at 82 kilometres the longest of the walking tracks, delivering the biggest contrast from palm-fringed beaches to sub-alpine tussock grasslands. Routeburn Track – at 32 kilometres the shortest of the walking tracks. Milford Track – the most famous of the Great Walks. [7] Paparoa Track and Pike29 Memorial Track – 55 km ...
As a result of Milford Sound's high rainfall and the density of salt water, the surface of Milford Sound is a layer of freshwater containing tannins from the surrounding rainforest. [22] This filters much of the sunlight which enters the water, allowing for a variety of Black coral to be found at depths of as shallow as 10 metres (33 ft ...
State Highway 94 is a New Zealand state highway connecting the large Southland town of Gore with one of New Zealand's most popular destinations, Milford Sound.It also passes the significant townships of Lumsden and Te Anau as well going through the Homer Tunnel (in this area it is also called the 'Milford Road', with the section from Te Anau up to the Sound being 119 kilometres or 74 miles). [1]
It flows into Milford Sound and the final section of the Milford Track follows the river. It flows through Lake Ada, where it is joined by Joes River, and is about 20 km (12 mi) long. [1] Lake Ada was dammed by a landslide about 900 years ago. [2] Pāteke lived on the river until the mid-1990s, when stoats spread to the valley.
The track is 56 kilometres (35 mi) in length. It runs in a roughly south–north direction, its southern end being accessible by road 15 kilometres to the east of the Homer Tunnel, and its northern end being at the Tasman Sea coast at Martins Bay, north of Milford Sound.
The Wick Mountains are a range within New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, the country's biggest national park.Their highest peak is Mount Elliot 1,990 metres (6,530 ft), [1] and this can be seen in fine weather from the Milford Track, a popular tourist walking track.
Part of the river's course is traditionally regarded as the boundary between the Southland and Otago regions, however, current maps show the entirety of the Hollyford Valley contained within the Southland Region. [2] In January 1863, Patrick Caples explored the river, naming it after his home town of Hollyford, County Tipperary in Ireland. [3]