Lake Sylvan Track
Track category
Walking track
Time:
40 min one way or 1 hr 40 min returning via tramline loop
Description
Lake Sylvan
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/mōhua.
NOTE: The tramline loop includes a river crossing.
Getting there
Access is from the Lake Sylvan car park which is 30 minutes from Glenorchy.
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