This National park is probably the best known and we tackled each end separately, rather than doing the 80km ‘Overland Track’ that attracts walkers worldwide. 
Very nice glacial scenery and we had fantastic weather for our hikes. (Sam now up to 13kms without getting too cranky). Queenstown to Montezuma Falls 
The winding road down to Queenstown is a shocking moonscape caused by tree-felling, gold and copper mining & pollution. The last smelter closed in 1969 but they say it will take 400 years for the environment to recover.
The town is just a series of pokey, tin roofed wooden houses so we continued on to Rosebery and did a ‘drive-by’ of their caravan park. It was a bleak concrete slab in the middle of an ugly village, so we cooked our dinner at the nearest picnic spot and decided to camp overnight at the Montezuma Falls walk instead.
Montezuma Falls (named after the Montezuma Mine company) is reached by an abandoned railway track and the signs read ‘do not drink the water in the creeks as they still carry high levels of acid and heavy metals’ … lovely! 
However, the 3 hour walk is rewarded by a very high waterfall and a really cool suspension bridge.
Gap – just wide enough for your leg to slip through (or am I just paranoid?)
The winding road down to Queenstown is a shocking moonscape caused by tree-felling, gold and copper mining & pollution. The last smelter closed in 1969 but they say it will take 400 years for the environment to recover.
The town is just a series of pokey, tin roofed wooden houses so we continued on to Rosebery and did a ‘drive-by’ of their caravan park. It was a bleak concrete slab in the middle of an ugly village, so we cooked our dinner at the nearest picnic spot and decided to camp overnight at the Montezuma Falls walk instead.
Montezuma Falls (named after the Montezuma Mine company) is reached by an abandoned railway track and the signs read ‘do not drink the water in the creeks as they still carry high levels of acid and heavy metals’ … lovely! 
However, the 3 hour walk is rewarded by a very high waterfall and a really cool suspension bridge.
Gap – just wide enough for your leg to slip through (or am I just paranoid?)
