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 Track
• Makarora Valley Track
• Cameron Valley Track
• Wills Valley Track
• Cascade Saddle Route
• Rob Roy Glacier Track
• Rees/Dart Track
• Greenstone/Caples Track
• Diamond Creek Track
• Sugarloaf Rockburn Track
• Earnslaw Burn Track
• Routeburn Track
• Other facilities and services  

Gillespie Pass Track

• The VHF radio at the Young River Mouth has been removed.
• Ice and snow present on the Gillespie Pass - alpine skills and equipment recommended.
• 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

Wilkin Valley Track

• Slips and washouts have destroyed sections of track - caution required.
• Major slip on route from Top Forks to Waterfall Face, South Branch; difficult and steep to negotiate - extreme care required.

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

Wills Valley Track

• Major slip at the entrance of the track - extreme care required.


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

Cascade Saddle Route

• Snow present on alpine section of route - alpine skills and equipment recommended.

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

Rob Roy Glacier Track

• Slip and track damage - care required.

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

Rees/Dart Track

• The bridge over Snowy Creek has been removed for winter.
• Caution is required on the Rees Dart tracks due to flood damage. Two sections of track have been washed away and alternate high water routes have been cut and marked.
• Caution is required for 1 km above Shelter Rock Hut due to river erosion of the track. An alternate high water track has been cut and marked in this location.
• Caution is required below Sandy Bluff for 1 km due to river erosion of Sandy Flat. An alternate high water track has been cut and marked in this location. 
• River surges possible, Dredge Flat; Lower Dart Valley. Trampers are advised not to linger along the river edge or in the low lying areas between Sandy and Chinamans Bluffs.
• 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; a new bridge will not be constructed this summer season - river crossing skills are currently required. There is slip damage on the track itself.

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	Outside Sports Building 36-38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

• Windfalls present on track, care required.
• A washout approximately three kilometres north of Greenstone Hut can be bypassed on a scree slop - caution required.
• Major slip approximately 1.5 hours before McKellar Hut, Greenstone valley side - caution required.

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	Outside Sports Building 36-38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

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.

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	Outside Sports Building 36-38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

 

Sugarloaf Rockburn Track

• Rockburn Hut is closed due to severe storm damage

  

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	Outside Sports Building 36-38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

 

Earnslaw Burn Track

• Windfalls possible on track.

Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre
Phone:	+64 3 442 7935
Address:	Outside Sports Building 36-38 Shotover Street Queenstown 9300
Email:
Full office details

Routeburn Track

• Routeburn Falls Hut closed for maintenance work 13th - 27th May 2013 inclusive.
• For other information 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

• Restricted Rural Fire Season - fire by permit only. BBQs in properly constructed containers fuelled by gas or electricity permitted without permit.
• Aspiring Hut: Off Peak facilities - No Hut warden, radio or gas cooking facilities available. 
• Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre:  8:30am - 4.30pm Mon-Fri. Closed Sat-Sun
• Mt Aspiring National Park Visitor Centre: 8:30am - 5:00pm Mon-Fri, 9.30am-4.00pm Sat, closed Sunday and closed daily 12-12.30pm for lunch.
• Makarora Visitor Centre: Closed for winter - interpretation room open Mon-Fri

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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