Take a short walk around historic, man-made Blue Lake in St Bathans and view sluicings and gold mining relics. Category: Short walk Completion Time: 30 min
This signposted walk in Bendigo Conservation Area takes you down to the mine entrances and the recently restored stamper battery. Category: Walking track Distance: 2 km Completion Time: 15 min return
These tailings are nationally significant as the only complete record of dredging activity from 1863 to 1963. Category: Walking track Completion Time: 2 - 3 hr
Kānuka Loop Track is the only DOC managed bush walk in Central Otago. Category: Tramping track Distance: 10 km Completion Time: 5 hr
Developed for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, the Otago Central Rail Trail follows the former Otago Central Branch railway line for 150 kilometres from Middlemarch to Clyde. Category: Walking track
Take a short walk or mountain bike ride to Quartz Reef Point, the best preserved example of herring bone tailings in the country. Category: Walking track
Easy access walks - North Island
Easy access walks - South Island
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