Milford Track Hike - A Must-Do for Kiwis
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The Milford Track remains New Zealand’s most celebrated hiking experience with good reason. It was first promoted as a tourism attraction in 18889 and today continues to attract locals and visitors from all over the world but it is not a pushover and requires a reasonable level of fitness and endurance.
The entrance to the Milford Track is by boat across Lake Te Anau to Glade Wharf. There are two options to hike the Milford Track.
with a series of huts that can be booked online and are enormously popular and therefore difficult to book. The 2026/7 Season opens at 9.30am on Wednesday 13 May 2026. You carry your own sleeping bag and food.
offers a more premium experience with guides to support the hikers and comfortable accommodation in their own huts with catered meals (and a bar) so that hikers do not need to carry their own food or bring their own bedding. This takes the pressure off!
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At 54 kilometres long, over 3 nights, you hike up through native bush and over a mountain pass; along pristine river valleys, remnants of ancient glaciers, flanked by soaring mountains of metamorphic rocks and granite.
The image above looks up the valley to the McKinnon Pass where we will hike over on Day 3.
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Glade House, at the begining of the Milford Track, is about 30 minutes walk from Lake Te Anau and sits beside the Clinton River.
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