Bannockburn Sluicings Historic Reserve - Bannockburn Sluicings Historic Reserve 143 Felton Road
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| Address : | Bannockburn Sluicings Historic Reserve 143 Felton Road, Bannockburn 9384, New Zealand |
| Postal code : | 9384 |
| Website : | https://www.myguidequeenstown.com/things-to-do/bannockburn-sluicings |
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Ryan E on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great hike of your are ever in the area.
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Meredith Gudsell on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The higher up you go the better, the caves are cool!
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Kevin Mintenko on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some steep sections on this loop track, but overall a very easy walk.
Absolutely stunning scenery, and a lovely smell of wild thyme follows you along the whole walk.
If this is your first time in the Cromwell area, start here! From certain sections of the track you have sweeping views of the valley, and it is good to get the picture of the area.
The history markers also give you an appreciation for the gold mining past of the region.
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Paul Bourke on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The walk around the Bannockburn Sluicings is pretty darn good. The loop track is around 3.5 to 4 km and takes a good hour or more if you explore a bit and stop for a few snaps. It's amazing to think that this landscape was modified do much by mining efforts around 150 years ago. It looks like something in a desert from the movies. Reading the information panels is worthwhile if you like history, particularly gold mining history. The Stewart town ruins are pretty cool and make you wonder what life would be like up here all those years ago. Be careful to follow the trail as it's easy enough to wander off onto other tracks. Just follow the markers and check for them regularly. The walk is quite hilly so a reasonable degree of fitness is required as us being reasonably sure footed. Nothing is too difficult though. Take water on a hot day. The views are panoramic and truly stunning as you get to the top. It feels like you can see 100 miles as you look out over the vineyards, across Cromwell and all the way down Lake Dunstan to the mountains. Beautiful.
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The Maydell’s Wander on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bannokburn Sluicing track isn’t pretty. It’s tragically beautiful. Easy walk. 3.5 km loop, around 1.5 hours walk from the car park.
Dogs on leash are allowed.
This desert made by water is not a natural site, but the 150-year-old aftermath of goldminers’ dreams, and a technique known as ‘hydraulic sluicing’ where water was blasted at the hills to release the gold.
It feels like we were out of New Zealand while walking on this track. Like walking on a desserted place then a garden halfway of the walk.
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Clare Sim on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You can choose from multiple tracks here as seen on the sign at the start of the track. The Bannockburn Sluicings Loop is a very exposed gravel track, bringing you across many areas where sluicing used to be done. It isn’t a Bush walk, or a lakeside walk. You see mainly rockfaces - not my first choice for a hike but it has its own beauty. You get to a high point where you can see a large section of Bannockburn, and the view is amazing. There are uphills and downhills and flat sections, it’s an easy walk.
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Luisa Barth on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Gorgeous area! Definitely go for a short or long walk along the sluicings. The landscape looks kind of unreal! Heaps of lovely spots to stop and to enjoy the views ?
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Moira Fraser on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bannockburn Sluicings is a favourite walk of ours. There are great sign boards to help you understand the environment you are looking at. It is such an unusual landscape - like the badlands.there are marvelous views of the Kawerau River, the plantings of the Bannockburn wineries and Lake Dunstan.
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