Arrowtown

Lake Hayes Walkway


Lake Hayes Walkway

Time: 2 hour loop
Grade: Medium Fitness
Gear: Comfortable shoes recommended

Easy grade walk on a well formed track providing outstanding views of the lake and surrounding environs. Please keep dogs on a leash around the wetlands area which is one of the few sites you can observe the Australasian Crested Grebe. Parking and access.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.1

Australia’s first saint, Sister Mary MacKillop visited Arrowtown in 1897 and set up a Catholic School. Part of this school can still be visited today.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.2

The first Arrowtown School was in Buckingham Street and opened in 1863. It was on the site now occupied by the Oak development.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.3

The first jail in Arrowtown was simply a log. You were chained up to it. The later stone jail still exists and is in Cardigan Street. It is New Zealand’s 4th oldest jail.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.4

Millbrook Resort is named after Mill Farm on which it sits. Mill farm was established by the Butel family who came from Normandy.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.5

Arrowtown is one of the fastest growing towns in New Zealand:
1948---------120 people
1989------850 people
2015----2600 people
2021-----3900 people

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.6

They used to sell Morphine in the local drug store. That was back in the goldmining days of course!

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