Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Canterbury > Banks Peninsula - Lyttleton Harbour > Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve
Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve
- Location
- Drive to Hilltop on the Akaroa Highway then turn along the Summit Road for 2 km to a small area at the side of the road where you can park.
- Description
An outstanding feature of this reserve is a huge forked lowland tōtara which may be 2,000 years old and measures 8.5 metres around its trunk.
The tōtara can be reached after a few minutes walk into the bush which also features tōtara, mataī and fuschia/kōtukutuku.
The track winds up steadily through forest and then north through open grasslands and regenerating bush.
Good views are possible from this section of track. The track then turns and climbs steeply up a gap in the bluffs, over boulders. It reaches open tussock tops before eventually climbing onto “Rocky Peak”, with views of the peninsula and Akaroa Harbour.
Montgomery Track links up with the longer Summit Road Walkway Track.
10 min return to tōtara tree, 2 hr return to Rocky Peak
- Level
- Hard
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Historical
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Toilets
- Tramping
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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