Dingle Burn Track
Twizel · Canterbury · Point to Point
Route and dog-access details for this walk come from the Department of Conservation, licensed CC BY 4.0. DOC’s own wording: “Dogs are not allowed if you start or end via Dingleburn Station Road, Lake Hāwea. This road crosses private property. Dogs are only allowed if you start and finish from Birchwood Road, Ahuriri River or use helicopter access”. Evidence: the rule-setter’s own published wording. How we check dog rules.
Good to know
Dogs are allowed here. Keep them on the lead, watch for ground-nesting birds and stock, and read the signs at the gate.
About Dingle Burn Track
Near Twizel in Canterbury, Dingle Burn Track runs 2.8 km as a point-to-point.
A multi-day backcountry tramping track through the Dingle Burn valley in Hāwea Conservation Park, climbing through beech forest to the Dingle Burn Saddle (1,448 m) and connecting to the Ahuriri Valley. Dogs are allowed only from the Birchwood Road/Ahuriri end, not via the Lake Hāwea (Dingleburn Station Road) private-property access.
Graded easy, it stays flat overall, and takes about 33m to walk.
Dogs are allowed here, on the lead.
