Unguided Walks

Independent Tramping Packages entail self-guiding and shared Department of Conservation hut accommodation. You are responsible for purchasing, carrying and preparing your meals during this programme. Our itineraries allow the independent tramper to walk the individual tracks with confidence, knowing all important aspects have all been arranged.

The Queen Charlotte walk is slightly different - your luggage is transported by water taxi each day and lodge accommodation is included.

Kepler Track Freedom Package

The Kepler Track is located in the south-west of the South Island, and is available to Independent Trampers from October until April each year. You will need to be able to carry all your food and equipment over rough rocky uneven surfaces, climbing and descending for up to 16 kilometres a day.

Milford Track Freedom Walk Package

The Milford Track is located in the heart of spectacular Fiordland National Park, south-west of the South Island. The track starts at the head of Lake Te Anau and finishes in Milford Sound.

The rewards of walking the Milford Track are many. Once described as the finest walk in the world, the Milford Track is one of New Zealand's most popular walk, and approximately 14,000 people complete the track each year. The track may only be walked in one direction Glade Wharf to Milford Sound, with a maximum of 40 independent walkers permitted to start the track each day.
Over the last two million years the landscape of Fiordland has been reshaped by huge glaciers. The have left behind the U-shaped main valleys, ice-gouged ledges and the hanging valleys of tributary streams.

Queen Charlotte Track 4 Day Freedom Walk

This Freedom walk is designed for walkers preferring to walk independently, but still with all the comfort that the Queen Charlotte Track is famous for. Explore this vast network of drowned river valleys from the unique perspective of this well formed track. Here lush coastal beech forest reaches out to greet the lapping tides of ever-changing hues, and breather taking views appear around every corner of this 71 kilometre track.

Routeburn Track Freedom Walk Package

The Routeburn Track traverses 33 kilometres of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks, south west of the South Island. The track starts at the Routeburn Shelter and finishes At The Divide.

One of New Zealand's most popular walks, approximately 13,000 walkers complete the track each year. The track maybe walked in either direction .
During the Ice Ages, the last of which ended some 10,000 years ago, huge glaciers carved out the rock. The Hollyford glacier was so large it curved around the southern end of the Darren Mountains and flowed 50 kilometres north to Martins Bay. When the glaciers retreated they left the distinctive U-shaped main valleys. Smaller handing valleys, cirque basins and residual glaciers like Donne Glacier on the eastern face of Mt. Tutoko. Beech is the dominant forest tree, with red beech around the start of the Routeburn Valley on sunny, frosty-free sites. Mountain Beech occurs at higher altitudes within the Routeburn Valley.

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Unguided Walks

Queen Charlotte Track 4 Day Freedom Walk
Milford Track Freedom Walk Package
Routeburn Track Freedom Walk Package
Kepler Track Freedom Package