Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Otago > Queenstown > Lake Sylvan Track
Lake Sylvan Track
- Location
- Access is from the Lake Sylvan car park which is 30 minutes from Glenorchy. Glenorchy is 47 kilometres from Queenstown
- Description
This well-defined track leads through old moraine river terraces and very tall red beech/tawhai raunui to pretty Lake Sylvan, home to brown trout and numerous small native fish. Returning via the 1920s tramline loop, you can compare regenerating beech in this cutover area to the untouched forest that you walk through on the way in. This area is part of an Operation Ark site where DOC staff are working to protect the endangered yellowhead/mohua.
NOTE: Tramline loop includes a river crossing.
- Duration
- 0.4 hours
- Level
- Medium
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Carpark
- Historical
- Plant Life
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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