Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
MAPS & BROCHURES
This tramp is covered by NZTopo50 maps
CA10
(Lake Williamson) and
CB10
(Glenorchy),
as well as NewTopo
Rees-Dart Track
1:40,000. DOC's brochure is
The Rees Dart Track.
HUTS & CAMPING
Daleys Flat. Each has a solid-fuel fire and water but no cooking facilities. You can camp
next to the huts for $5, and elsewhere on the route with the exception of the fragile alpine
and subalpine areas between Shelter Rock and Dart Huts. Be sure to purchase your hut tick-
ets in advance from any DOC visitor centre.
INFORMATION SOURCES
Queenstown Visitor Centre
( 03-442 7935;
www.doc.govt.nz;
36 Shotover St, Queenstown;
8.30am-5.30pm)
, upstairs in Outside Sports, is the place to arrange logistics, obtain maps,
passes and track updates and hire personal locator beacons.
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Getting to/from the Tramp
Glenorchy Journeys (
Click here
)
offers on-demand, flexible transport services to and from
Muddy Creek and Chinamans Flat from Queenstown ($55) and Glenorchy ($35). Each trail-
head is also serviced on demand for around $50 by Buckley Transport (
Click here
)
and Info
& Track Centre (
Click here
)
.
The track can be finished with an exhilarating jetboat ride down the Dart River, from as
far upstream as Sandy Bluff (depending on river flows) to Glenorchy with
Dart River Jet
The Tramp
Day 1: Muddy Creek Car Park to Shelter Rock Hut
6-8 HOURS, 19KM
From Muddy Creek car park, ford the creek and head across private farmland of Rees Valley
Station for 2km, reaching the private Arthurs Creek Hut just beyond Bridges Creek. Grassy
flats lie beyond, and it's one hour (4km) of open travel on the true left (east) side of
Rees
River
until the track fords Twenty Five Mile Creek; poles mark the route.
The route continues along open river flats for another 1½ hours and can be extremely
muddy at times - almost knee-deep in spots if it has been raining. Eventually you reach a
