The route
Milford Track
53.6 km and 1,135 m of climbing across Fiordland, from Glade Wharf to Sandfly Point: the crossing of McKinnon Pass.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
- Distance
- 53.6 km
- Elevation gain
- 1,135 m
- Highest point
- 1,134 m
- Summits, passes and villages
- 8
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The route in numbers
Indicative figures computed by Plotrek on its illustrative route, with altitudes from a terrain model. They may differ from the organiser's.
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Reading the route
The Milford Track starts at Glade Wharf, at 207 m above sea level, at the northern end of Lake Te Anau in Fiordland. It is a single one-way crossing on foot that ends at Milford Sound: 53.6 km with 1,135 m of climbing.
The track first follows the valley to Clinton Hut, at km 4.8. It then climbs to Mintaro Hut at km 23.4, below the pass. On the way down it passes Dumpling Hut at km 35.4, then Boatshed Hut at km 40.8.
The high point, at 1,134 m, comes at km 26.1, near Omanui / McKinnon Pass (km 25.5). The longest climb gains 927 m, from km 0 to km 26.1. The track ends at Sandfly Point, at 10 m above sea level, on the shore of Milford Sound.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Altitudes measured on the route.
03 · Your poster
The route, drawn with a pen
The relief of the crossing, from Glade Wharf to Sandfly Point, takes shape in contour lines: our pen plotter draws it with a pen, line by line. Your name and your dates sit in the cartouche, in A4, A3 or A2.
Shipped from our workshop in Le Bouscat
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Official information
- Illustrative route redrawn by Plotrek from public data: the course announced by the organiser and OpenStreetMap paths. It is not the official course of the event.
- Altitudes: terrain model AWS Terrain Tiles
- Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Figures and text: Plotrek