Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Canterbury > Arthurs Pass > Mt Aicken
Mt Aicken
- Location
Arthurs Pass Village, SH73
This track begins from the Devils Punchbowl Waterfall car park. A signpost just north of the Chalet Restaurant points to the car park where the walk starts.
The turnoff is signposted 15 minutes up the Devils Punchbowl Waterfall track.
- Description
Mt Aicken (1858m) is a rocky scramble about 500 m east of the main ridge overlooking the Mingha Valley. Views from here of Mt Rolleston.
The track passes an old pipeline that fed an electricity generator used during the rail tunnel construction. The track then climbs steeply to the forest edge.
Note: Routes beyond the bushline are not marked. For experienced alpine trampers only.
3-4 hour return to bushline.
- Level
- Hard
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Camping
- Carpark
- Food and Drink
- Historical
- Huts
- Lookouts
- Plant Life
- Toilets
- Tramping
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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