Kānuka Track

The track starts 200 m from the entry to the historic reserve and parking is recommended some 200 m up the road at the Logantown site. The track’s first 100 m or so is shared with the shorter Matilda Battery Track and then branches off to the right at the crest of Spec Gully. After traversing some open country and a stile the track winds (clockwise) through the Kānuka Scenic Reserve in the Chinamans Creek catchment. The track climbs into a typical Lower Dunstan Mountains landscape to pass through re-generated kānuka forest and impressive rocky crags with magnificent views over Lake Dunstan and the Upper Clutha Valley. It then runs around the back of Chinamans Creek’s gully before traversing a ridge and following the front ridge line that faces the Upper Clutha Valley. Deep in Chinamans Creek, where the track crosses back, there’s a biv for shelter near stone hut ruins, along with several relics of earlier years.

Shorter loop

There’s also a shorter loop walk that takes between one and one-and-a-half hours. Follow the Kānuka Track, as above, but instead of crossing Burma Road – the only one you'll come to – follow it down to the gate and turn right to come back along the marked fence line and back to the stile.