Highland Peaks

The Dunedin area provides a wide variety of interesting hiking trails, ranging from coastline and historic sites, through native forest to tussock grasslands.

Most tracks are suitable for people of average fitness and are generally well-defined and well-formed.

Here are a few examples...Pilot's Beach on the Otago Peninsula, the Pineapple Track on Flagstaff, St Kilda and St Clair ocean beaches, and the Tunnel Beach walkway all offer great walking and picnicking opportunities.

If you are feeling extremely energetic you could try hiking up the world's steepest street - Baldwin Street in North Dunedin.

By the mid 1870’s, the need for water led to the development of the Silver Stream Water-Race.

Completed in 1881 it consisted of 29 km of winding open-race, timber sluices, tunnels, weirs and steel pipes, and operated until the 1960's. It has since been developed as a series of circuits.

Has an enormous range of great tracks and many striking
views along the coastline.

Lookouts such as Lovers Leap and The Chasm also provide spectacular vistas over inlets and beaches