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Maps – Middlemarch Area
Category: West via SH87
Deep Creek – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips to Deep Creek.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Deep Creek Water Scheme Pipeline history.
Further background information behind Deep Stream project
Access Permissions are required for trips to Deep Creek – refer guidelines
How To Get There:
Follow State Highway 87 from Outram to the Clarks Junctions turn off. Turn left onto the Old Dunstan Road which will take you past Rocklands Station and continue to the gate of the Te Papanui Conservation Park (managed by DOC).
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
06/11/2024. Deep Creek Weir. Combined. Leaders: Barbara Shackell, Wendy Langley, Carolyn Pridham, Sue Johnstone.
Deep Creek Weir from Old Dunstan Road past Rocklands. 2023 – 1989 (19 trips, 8 with reports and photos, 9 with no reports, 2 with photos only)
Heenan Road to the Maungatuas and the Three Kings – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes covers trips West via SH87 which includes trips from Heenan Road to the Maungatuas and the Three Kings.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Access Permissions maybe required as this trip (Heenan Road) ventures over a working farm – refer guidelines
How To Get There:
From Outram turn left onto Allanton Road then right onto Huntly Road – this runs into Maungatua Road. Proceed to McLaren Road on the right, this in turn runs into Heenan Road.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
30/10/2024. 3 Kings from Heenan Road. Hikers. Leaders Dave Roberts Neville Griffiths.
Tramps Incorporating Three Kings. 2021 – 1989 (26 trips, 6 with reports, 1 with photos only, 19 with no reports)
Sinclair Wetlands – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (Maungatua, Waipori River, Berwick) groups together trips to the Sinclair Wetlands
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Official Sinclair Wetlands website.
Hori Sinclair and his wetlands’origin(1st paragraph only, of treatise linking its surrounds prehistorically with Kai Point Coal Mine)
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Sinclair Wetlands. 2024 – 1990 (5 trips with 4 reports)
Middlemarch Area – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West SH87 groups together trips to the Middlemarch and Sutton area. (map)
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
General Information:
Rock and Pillar via Six Mile Creek This climbs 1,005 m. (3300 feet) up the eastern face from Glencreag Station up a leading ridge south of Six Mile Creek. This is the most direct approach.
Rock and Pillar via spur south of Lug Creek. Information: Climbs 910 m. (3000 feet) up the eastern face of a well-graded vehicle track up a leading spur south of Lug Creek. Average time to Leaning Lodge is 3 hours on foot.
DoC access. 9.5km north of the Middlemarch store on SH87, just before Lug Creek, is a farm entrance (RAPID 7219 – no DoC sign). A short way up the driveway is a DoC car park. There is public access up the vehicle track to the conservation area boundary. The track is now a recreation reserve administered by DoC.
Easiest route to Big Hut from Leaning Lodge (foot only – unmarked – good visibility essential) is another 45+ minutes climbing gently southwards to cross a steep gully and then climb a gentle shelf to above the eastern basins. Sidle several hundred metres past the lower prominent rock tors before gently descending to Big Hut once it becomes visible. Route very wind and cloud-prone. Ice axe and crampons may be necessary to traverse steep snow slopes near Leaning Lodge.
64 km to Middlemarch. 66 km to Stonehurst Track.
Redan Crater- contact for access Ken Rennick.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Middlemarch Area Tramps. 2023 – 1988 (16 trips with 13 reports, 1 with photos only, 2 no reports)
Jones Property, Matarae. 2022 (1 trip with 1 report)
Shannons Farm Walk. 2023 – 2020 (3 trips with 3 reports)
Lake Mahinerangi Farm Tramps – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips on farms in the Lake Mahinerangi area.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Lake Mahinerangi and Waipori (General Information)
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Mahinerangi Farm Tramps. 2024 – 2011 (6 trips with 6 reports – 1 with photos only)
Mahinerangi Wind Farm. 2019 – 2011 (2 reports – photos only)
Lake Mahinerangi, Verterburn Road, Picnic Place. (6 trips, no reports)
Post Office Creek, Reid’s Station – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips to Post Office Creek and Reids Station.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Post Office Creek, Reid’s Station. 2022 -1992 (18 trips with 7 reports including 1 with photos only)
Nardoo Scientific Reserve – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips to the Nardoo Scientific Reserve.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Suggest leave Mosgiel 8.30am to get to ‘Little Peak about 1km above ‘Walrus rock’.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Walrus Bridge. Nardoo Scientific Reserve. Little Peak.
2022 – 1993 (10 trips with 6 reports)
Ship At Anchor – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes in the West via SH87 (inland on the South Side SH 87) and groups together trips to the Ship At Anchor.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Lake Mahinerangi. From Eldorado Track, Cox’s Reef, Cosmopolitan battery, Timber Gully Waterfalls, old gold workings. (data lacking)
Eldorado Track (Waipori) year round. Locked gates. Key from DCC Water Dept.)
Long tramp. Tussock now heavy. Summer too hot? Autumn may be preferable.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Ship at Anchor, Lammermoors, Deep Stream, Gold tailings, Mahinerangi.
2024 – 1989 (14 trips with 7 reports)
Nicols Farm – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes covers trips West via SH87 which includes trips to Nicols Farm (north side of the Taieri River)
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Access Permissions are required as trips to Nichols Farm ventures over a working farm – refer guidelines
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Nicols Farm (formerly Michelles Farm), North Side Taieri River, Outram. 2023 – 1989 (15 trips with 6 reports)
Woodside Glen, Maungatuas – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes covers trips West via SH87 which includes trips to the Woodside Glen and Maungatuas.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
Woodside Glen, plus to top of Maungatuas. 2024 – 1992 (18 trips with 11 reports)
Outram, Allanton, Floodbanks, Lee Stream, Traquair, Whare Creek – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This page of club tramps and hikes covers trips West of SH87 which includes trips to the Outram area, Lee Stream, Traquair / Whare Creek
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:
13/11/2024 Outram Glen to Lee Stream. Hikers. Leaders: Julie McKenzie & Katrina McKenzie.
04/09/2024. Outram Heritage Trail and Floodbank. Grade 2. Combined. Leaders: Anette MacRae, Katrina McKenzie, Cathy Ferguson, Janette Abbot.
Outram – Allanton Flood Bank. 2023 – 2011 (4 trips with 3 reports).
Outram Glen Track to Lee Stream. 2023 – 1992 (15 trips with 10 reports)
Outram Museum. 2020 (1 trip with report)
Outram Glen and Traquair/Whare Creek. Cartwright Track. 2014 – 2008 (6 trips with 5 reports)
Taieri River Flood banks, Riverside Road, Silverstream, Owhiro Stream – Information and Trips Library
Scope:
This grouping of Club tramps and hikes covers trips in the West via SH87 area including the flood banks on the Taieri River and incorporates Silverstream, Riverside Road and the Owhiro Stream,
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Links to tramps and hikes in the same area:
Taieri Plains Tramps. 2003 – 2019. (8 trips including 5 with reports).
Lower Silverstream Tramps. 2023 – 1996 (23 trips including 15 with reports).
Government Track, Kowhai Spur, Mill Creek – Information and Trips Library
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
2.5+ hours from road to Pole-line and Styx Road.
DCC – Government Track map – see image below.
DCC: Mountain biking on Government Track
[DCC brochure extract: Government Track. 4 hr 30 min, 17 km (return). Continue reading “Government Track, Kowhai Spur, Mill Creek – Information and Trips Library”