Looking down from Dore Pass to the Milford Track and Lake Te Anau. Photo: Nicola Billitz

Dore Pass, Fiordland National Park

November 2021

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Heralded as a ‘secret door’ to the Milford Track, Dore Pass has a legacy of rebellion. By Nicole Billitz

From its completion in 1908, the Milford Track was originally used exclusively by the Tourist Hotel Corporation. Frustrated trampers continually failed to gain independent access until 1965, when the Otago Tramping Club decided to hold a hiking protest – the freedom walk. Club members rebelliously marched over Dore Pass and onto the Milford Track. A […]
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