Walk Details
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Flaxmore
- Location
- Start the walk from Fairfield House at the top of Trafalgar Street South. On the left of Fairfield House is the walkway sign.
- Description
This track traverses the north facing slopes of the Grampians, but does not go to the top. There are great views over the city and Tasman Bay with native and exotic plants to see.
Fairfield House was built by Maria and Arthur Atkinson. Arthur was once a Nelson MP and astronomer. Get permission from the caretakers to climb the tower near Fairfield House where Arthur’s telescope was mounted.
Walk up the steep track on the left of the Fairfield House driveway to the walkway sign. Follow the track around the back of Fairfield and then take the downhill fork and another downhill turn which takes you out at the top of Endeavour Street.
Follow the Grampians Walkway uphill to a gate where you take a right turn to follow a track which transverses along the Flaxmere fault-line, rather than carrying on uphill to the summit. The track takes you around the side of a valley behind the college and hospital, with great views over the city and Tasman Bay.
After coming around the western side of this valley, the road forks where you need to take the downhill fork and when the road turns uphill, carry on downhill taking the right track to a stile and sign "Grampians Oaks".
Walk down Blampied Place to Tutuku Street, take a right turn into Campbell Street, then a left down Motueka Street, turning right into Waimea Road. There is a footpath that takes you above traffic level, along in front of Braemar and Nelson College. Turn right into Hampden Street, left into Ngatitama Street and right again into Van Dieman Street to finish up back at Fairfield.
Refer Walk Nelson for more details and a map of this walk.
- Duration
- 1.3 hours
- Amenities
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- Dogs Allowed
- Historical
- Lookouts
- Plant Life
- Source
- Walk Nelson 2007 – Nelson City Council
- Discussion
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