Fox Glacier Chalet track (D11)
The Fox Glacier Chalet track at Fox Glacier, New Zealand.
GPS: -43.490705° 170.027940°
Fox Glacier overview
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Stream crossing on Fox Chalet track.
Fox Chalet view platform.
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The 2010 view from Fox Glacier Chalet track-end view platform.
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2013 view from Fox Chalet.
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Blooming Southern Rata tree at Fox Glacier Chalet. 2010
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2013 view of lower Fox Glacier from Chalet viewpoint. Note the waterfall at the top that wasn’t there in 2010.
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Zoomed 2013 view from Fox Chalet, showing new glacier view track extension.
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The signed Glacier-view on the road in to the Fox Chalet carpark. You can see the upper-glacier from here.
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Zoomed-view of Fox Glacier from the Glacier-view rooadside stop. This is the most complete view of FoX Glacier that you can see from anywhere on the ground.
Zoomed-view of Fox Glacier from the Glacier-view rooadside stop. This is the most complete view of FoX Glacier that you can see from anywhere on the ground.
December 30, 2015 at 10:07 am |
Chalet track is closed now (end of Dec 2015), after a huge storm took out a couple bridges and some chunks of trail sometime in the last year. We did not see any views from the road in (perhaps the trees have grown in too much?), but the short walk to the signed view from the carpark was not at all crowded and still made a fine view after our fun-but-fruitless scramble over the “track closed” sign and the boulder-strewn streambed.
March 12, 2017 at 10:01 pm |
Chalet track was still “closed long term due to storm damage” when I was there end of December 2016.
March 15, 2017 at 10:14 pm |
March 2017 it’s still closed
February 23, 2018 at 7:27 pm |
February 2018, sign still says “closed long term…”.
December 18, 2018 at 12:37 am |
Update (Dec 2018) that the Chalet Track is still closed down (the info center staff said it’s not likely to reopen again, too much shifting terrain)