New Zealand Hiking

The Greenstone-Caples Track sits in the shadow of the Routeburn — one valley over, significantly less crowded, and arguably more rewarding precisely because fewer people make the effort to find it. At 61km, it’s a genuine four-day loop through the Fiordland wilderness, reaching its high point at McKellar Saddle at 945m.

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