Labyrinth Rocks

Labyrinth Rocks covers 0.4 km, near Tākaka in Nelson-Tasman.

A maze of weathered limestone on Scott Road, five minutes from the Tākaka shops, where the rock has split into corridors you walk through with walls well over head height on either side. The line drawn here is the main track in from the Scott Road entrance, about 400 metres down through the rocks to the southern end of the site, and the five minute walking time on this page is for that line alone. Ignore it as a visit length. The drawn track is under a third of what is here: roughly 1.3 kilometres of path is packed into a patch about 300 metres long, and the side passages branch, rejoin and dead end, so this is one way through rather than the only way. Most people spend half an hour to an hour in the maze and never walk the same corridor twice. It is flat, shaded and sheltered, the surface is packed earth and rock, and there is no water on site, so bring some. A dog stays on the leash here. Labyrinth Rocks is not named in any schedule of the Tasman District Council Dog Control Bylaw, but the bylaw makes any urban area a leash control area and defines that as land within or adjacent to the built-up area of a town, village or settlement, which is where this sits on the edge of Tākaka. The leash is the sensible rule in the maze anyway: sightlines end at the next corner, the corridors are narrow enough that two parties cannot easily pass, and there are usually children playing hide and seek in them.

It sits at the easy end and barely climbs, and takes about 5 min to walk.

Dogs are allowed here, on the lead. This walk is on the map because Inge & Pip suggested it, and we checked it against the source above.