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Dusky Trail
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Trail data: NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
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Trace the Fraser Stream into the foot of the Ben Ohau Range then traverse the Old Dusky Block to follow the Gladstone and Twizel rivers back out to the Mt Cook Highway.
Description from NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 17 km · 10 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty (DOC)
- Advanced
- Typical time (DOC)
- 7-8 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/d1b5cb90c7b34139aae58a7dfb1
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.1544, 169.9979 (centre of the official trail line)
Photo taken near this trail: “Godley River and Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, looking east (ISS014-E-18562).jpg” by Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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