Route: Wanaka Mt. Aspiring Road to Raspberry Creek road-end. Track past Cascade Hut to Aspiring Hut. [Route over Cascade Saddle to Dart Hut.] Dart River Track along Dart River. Metalled roads from Dart River road-end (Chinaman's Bluff) to Greenstone Track road-end. Greenstone Track to Greenstone Hut (at site of previous Slyburn Hut). Mavora Walkway past Taipo Hut, Boundary Walkway Hut, Careys Hut, to Mavora Lake Walkway road-end. Mavora Lakes road, Center Hill Road, Highway 94 to Mossburn.

Alternate routes: (1) Metalled roads from Dart River road-end at Chinaman's Bluff to Routeburn Track, to north end of Greenstone Track, Greenstone Track to Greenstone Hut.footbridge across water between North and South Mavora Lakes by picnicground. (2) From Mavora Walkway road-end, track along west side of South Mavora Lake and west bank of Mararoa River to footbridge crossing to Mavora Lakes Road.

Towns/Services: side-trip to Glenorchy (store/lodging), Kinloch (lodging/meals)

Maps: F40 Wanaka, F39 Matukituki, E39 Aspiring, E40 Earnslaw, D40 Milford, D41 Eglinton, E41 Queenstown, E42 Walter Peak, D43 Te Anau, D44 Takitimu, D45 Ohai, Queenstown and Central Otago Lakes (336-09), Mt. Aspiring (273-02), Fiordland (273-03), "Route Outline: Rees/Dart Rivers" by Amie, "Route Outline: Cascade Saddle", "Route Guide: Routeburn Track" and "Route Guide: Greenstone Track" by Matthew (all NZ Tramper), DOC pamphlets available for all tracks: Dart, Routeburn, Greenstone, and Mavora.

Route Notes: The Mavora Walkway from Taipo Hut to Boundary Hut has recently been re-routed away from the river flats to higher in the hills on the west side of the valley. The poles are easy to follow, but there is virtually no formed track yet along the new route, so it becomes hard on the ankles for much of the four hours traversing across the tussock/bush slopes. The re-routing was done at the request of the private landowner, and also because the old 4WD track in the river flats had eroded away at some water crossings and the area is generally swampy, with sinking steps across soggy ground. One could probably still take the old river flat route.

Page updated March 23, 2004