Lake Sylvan Track other trails nearby (tap a dot to open it)
Get directions · Google MapsApple Maps
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0) · OpenStreetMap · Official page · Basemap: OpenFreeMap (OpenMapTiles, © OSM contributors).
7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb–Apr, Nov · highs 13–19 °C (55–66 °F)
- J19°10°203
- F19°10°133
- M16°8°180
- A13°6°158
- M8°2°186
- J4°-1°176
- J4°-2°143
- A5°0°154
- S7°2°178
- O10°3°200
- N13°6°157
- D16°8°214
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
This well-defined track leads through old moraine river terraces and tall red beech/tawhai raunui to pretty Lake Sylvan in Mount Aspiring National Park.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 4.5 km · 2.8 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 1 hr 40 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/de0b62d689c642dd9fce3e9f107
- Mountain range
- Humboldt Mountains (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 41 km NW of Arthurs Point (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Mount Aspiring National Park
- Best months
- Feb–Apr, Nov
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.7101, 168.3227
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail centreSugarloaf/Rockburn Track
2.8 mi · 4.5 km · Mount Aspiring National Park
Scott Creek Track
3.9 mi · 6.3 km · Otago
Earnslaw Burn Track
5.1 mi · 8.3 km · Lower Dart Conservation Area
Routeburn Track
8 mi · 12 km · Fiordland National Park
Deadmans Track
9 mi · 14 km · Fiordland National Park
Rees-Dart Track
9 mi · 14 km · Otago