Mount Aspiring National Park

For your safety, every effort has been made to ensure that this information is correct. However, you should contact the local DOC visitor centre for the latest updates.

Changes to weather will affect conditions in the backcountry. Always check the latest weather and avalanche advisory reports (metservice.co.nz) before you venture out and be prepared to change your plans if conditions are unfavourable.

• Gillespie Pass Track
• Wilkin Valley
• West Matukituki, Liverpool and French Ridge Tracks
• Mt Brewster Track
• Makarora Valley Track
• Cameron Valley Track
• Cascade Saddle Route
• Rees/Dart Track
• Greenstone/Caples Track
• Diamond Creek Track
• Wilkin-East Matukituki Route
• Routeburn Track

Gillespie Pass Track

• Patches of snow present on Siberia side of Gillespie Pass - care required
• Unstable slip in the Young Valley - caution required.
• A dam that formed in the North Branch of Young Valley in 2007 still poses a potential risk to trampers. The valley should be avoided during periods of heavy rain.
• High river track available from Blue Pools carpark to Young Valley river mouth.

Mt Aspiring National Park Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 443 7660
Address:	Ardmore Street Wanaka 9305
Email:
Full office details

Makarora Valley Track

• Major slip damage to sections of the track - extreme caution required.

Mt Aspiring National Park Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 443 7660
Address:	Ardmore Street Wanaka 9305
Email:
Full office details

Cameron Valley Track

• A major slip has destroyed a section of track - extreme caution required.

Mt Aspiring National Park Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 443 7660
Address:	Ardmore Street Wanaka 9305
Email:
Full office details

Rees/Dart Track

• 25 Mile Hut (OTMC) is suitable only for emergency accommodation, due to its derelict condition.
• Whitbourn Track - bridge crossing the Dart River to this track has been destroyed, as well as slip damage on the track itself.

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

Greenstone/Caples Track

• A washout approximately three kilometres downstream of Greenstone Hut can be bypassed on a scree slope - caution required.
• Major slip approx 1.5 hrs before McKellar Hut, Greenstone valley side - caution required.

Diamond Creek Track (Glenorchy)

• A washout has damaged the track five minutes from the track entrance, and is passable only during normal river flows - caution required.

Routeburn Track

• See Fiordland National Park track and weather update

Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 249 7924
Address:	Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre Lakefront Drive Te Anau 9600
Email:
Full office details

Other facilities and services

• Prohibited Rural Fire Season - no open fires permitted. BBQs in properly constructed containers fuelled by gas or electricity permitted.
• Hut water supply: due to prologned dry conditions in Mt Aspiring National Park, some hut water tanks are currently empty - water collection is required from nearby streams and rivers.
• Aspiring Hut: Hut warden, radio and gas cooking facilities available.
• Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre: 8.30am - 6.00pm 7 days.
• Mt Aspiring National Park Visitor Centre: 8am - 5pm 7 days.
• Makarora Visitor Centre: 8am - 5pm 7 days, closed 12-1pm daily.

Note: This information only relates to changes that differ to what is stated in brochures and on this website. Other tracks, facilities and services in Mount Aspiring National Park are operating as normal.

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