Moeraki River is a highlight of the trip, seen here an hour up from the Cattle Track junction. Photo: Brian Dobbie

Middle Head Hut, Westland

August 2024

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Explore the beautiful Moeraki Valley on this overnighter with a choice of two huts to stay in. By Brian Dobbie

This track begins at a small car park beside SH6 between Fox Glacier and Haast and soon joins the historic Haast–Paringa Cattle Track, built by farmers and completed in 1883.  The Cattle Track provided the main transport and communication route from Haast to the rest of the West Coast well into the twentieth century, and […]
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