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    Track Notes: BANKS TRACK - AKAROA NEW ZEALAND

    Jun 03, 2018 4 minutes
    Words and Photos: LOUISE REYNOLDS

    The Banks Track is a 31-kilometre trail on Banks Peninsula, around 80 kilometres from Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island. While it may lack the fame of some of New Zealand’s great hiking trails, it is walked by around 2000 people each season. It has the distinction of being New Zealand’s first hiking trail exclusively on private land, passing through farmland and a privately-owned nature reserve that grants access to walkers.

    The trail first opened to walkers in 1990. After 27 years in the same format, one of the farms was withdrawn at the end of the 2016-2017 hiking season. A revised three-day route was launched in October 2017 featuring new sections of track opened to walkers for the first

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