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Walking the Queen Charlotte Track.
The Queen Charlotte Track can be walked in a variety of options, and you can have complete luxury while staying out on the track or by getting back to nature and camping along the route, Options from Day trips along the most beautiful track with unbelievable views at times, to multi day options are available, depending on time restraints travellers have. The following pages will give you a small insight as to options that are available to you.
Suggested Walks:
Mountain Biking the Queen Charlotte Track
The Queen Charlotte Track is a real wow!! of a mountainbike ride.
Open for its whole 71 kilometre length for most of the year, the Queen Charlotte is the longest continuous wilderness ride available in New Zealand.
It is also a truly spectacular ride, taking in sections of virtually untouched subtropical rainforest. Other sections cross open country providing stunning views into two of the waterways making up the Marlborough Sounds. Be sure to bring your camera!
Riders can choose to bike the whole track or just a shorter section. Travel with Endeavour Express to Ship Cove, Resolution bay or Punga Cove and exit from Endeavour Inlet, Torea Bay, Mistletoe Bay or Anakiwa. - Click here for our track map.
This makes rides of one day as much of an option as taking two or three days to bike the whole track.
The section from Ship Cove to Punga Cove/Camp Bay is closed to bikes from 1 December to 28 February each year.
Suggested Rides:
Travel to Lodges/Holiday Homes
Download full contact details of accommodation provides here
- Queen Charlotte Wilderness Park
- Tawa Cove
- Bluewater Lodge
- Cnoc na Lear
- Pines area holiday homes
- No Road Inn Lodge
- Furneaux Lodge
- Endeavour Resort
- Miners Camp
- The Woolshed
- Madsens Camp
- Punga Cove Resort
- Mahana Homestead
- Noelines Homestay
- Bay of Many Coves Resort
- Portage Resort
- Treetops
- Debretts Homestay
- Lochmara Lodge
- Mistletoe Bay Eco Village
- Te Mahia Resort
- Anakiwa Settlement Lodges
IMPORTANT: Queen Charlotte Track Pass
The Queen Charlotte Track is a unique New Zealand partnership between the Department of Conservation, Marlborough District Council and private landowners.
A Q.C.T.L.C. Pass is required for all Q.C.T.L.C. private land between Kenepuru Saddle, Torea Saddle, Te Mahia Saddle or Anakiwa, when hiking or biking the Queen Charlotte Track.
Pass Fees are as follows:
- $12, valid for up to 4 consecutive days.
- $25 yearly pass also available.
- School Children free.
The pass fee contibutes to the sustainability of the track and assists with maintenance, enhancements and access.
This pass can be purchased from our check in office before departing Picton for the track.
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