Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Canterbury > Ashburton > Methven > Methven Walkway
Methven Walkway
- Location
Start/Finish: Methven i-SITE Visitor Centre
Facilities: Parking at beginning and end of Walkway and at points between, where roads cross the canal. No facilities on the
Walkway.- Description
An easy walkway mainly following grass verges beside the Rangitata Diversion Race (a hydro-electric irrigation channel) and private farmland. The Walkway commences and ends at the Methven i-SITE Visitor Centre and is intersected by various country roads allowing several walking options. The walkway is also a popular option for mountain bikers.
The below website provides a map with different walk options.
The canal attracts many kinds of ducks near the Ashburton River. Along the way there are views of the Southern Alps including, as well as the Hutt Range, Mt Taylor Range and the Pudding Hill Range in the foreground, Mt Winterslow (Pothook), Mt Somers (Te Kiekie) and Mt Hutt (Opuke).
Midway to the Ashburton River Road bridge the walkway crosses the opposite bank west side of the canal before entering the picnic area at the river where the walkway ends.
- Distance
- 11.0 km
- Duration
- 3.0 hours
- Level
- Easy
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Carpark
- Dogs Allowed
- Fishing
- Historical
- Mountain Biking / Biking
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Toilets
- Source
- www.ashburtondistrict.co.nz
- Discussion
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